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ATLANTA – Embrace the abnormal.
It’s everywhere in this College Football Playoff and it’s awesome.
Everything abnormal about this Notre Dame football postseason — another playoff game in another city on another non-Saturday — feels so normal.
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Normal like when Notre Dame played the first College Football Playoff game on a Friday at home last month against Indiana. Normal like when Notre Dame had to wait an extra day because of terrorism before winning its biggest January game since 1993, earlier this month in New Orleans.
Normal like how Notre Dame erased a season-high 10-point deficit to beat Penn State in South Florida nine days ago. Normal, like Monday, when seemingly unstoppable Ohio State (13-2) and 60 minutes stand between Notre Dame (14-1) and its first national championship since 1988.
Maybe by kickoff, Earth will return to its axis and everything about this one will feel normal. For now, up is down and left is right and in is out and nothing about college football truly makes sense. The Irish are one win from their first national championship in 36 seasons.
This team. This season. Make sense of that one for a program that wasn’t supposed to be this good for this long in this postseason.
Abnormal. All of it.
A postseason like no other has been turned on its head by a team that lost at home this season to Northern Illinois. Because of that, nothing quite makes sense. Not even the day of the week, which brings us to the Saturday shenanigans of media day at the CFP national championship game.
There, on the floor of the Georgia World Congress Center, Irish defensive tackle Gabriel Rubio was asked the easiest question…
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Author : South Bend Tribune
Publish date : 2025-01-18 20:19:00
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