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Dec. 8—SOUTH BEND — For the first time since 1991, Notre Dame and Indiana will meet on the gridiron.
In the final batch of College Football Playoff rankings, the Fighting Irish (11-1), seeded seventh, and Hoosiers (11-1), seeded 10th, were matched together and will meet on Friday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. The winner will get No. 2 Georgia (11-2) at the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Wednesday, Jan. 1.
The game will be held at Notre Dame Stadium and will be the first CFP game held on a college campus.
“To say you’re a part of the first home playoff game in Notre Dame history, it’s humbling,” Notre Dame’s third-year head coach Marcus Freeman told ESPN’s Rece Davis.
“It’s going to be a great competition,” Freeman told Davis. “It’s going to be a great opportunity. Being a college football fan, you can’t help but notice what a terrific job they’ve done at Indiana this year. To go 11-1 in the Big Ten Conference and win some games against some really good opponents speaks to where that program is.”
The all-Hoosier State matchup was the result of a wild weekend of conference championships which saw the Irish idle while Texas and Penn State, two teams in front of Notre Dame, lost in their championship game, pushing the Irish down to the seventh seed. Indiana was also idle but had a solid spot in the field.
Notre Dame leads the all-time series 23-5-1 and have won the last six. The Hoosiers haven’t beaten the Irish since 1950. That was the lone time Indiana has beaten Notre Dame since 1906.
“Coach has done a wonderful job to take this program to win 11 games in the Big Ten and to have this team ready to make a run in the playoffs,” Freeman told media Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t know much about him so I took a minute to Google him and looked at some of things in the past that he has done at different places and he has won everywhere he has…
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Author : Goshen News, Ind.
Publish date : 2024-12-09 03:17:00
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