NotreDame secured a decisive victory over Indiana, defeating the Hoosiers 27-17 in the opening game of the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff on Friday night in South Bend ...
Coach Marcus Freeman and the NotreDame Fighting Irish will move on to play the Georgia Bulldogs in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal after a 27-17 victory over Indiana on Friday night.
Both teams have strong records against the spread. According to TeamRankings, NotreDame is 9-2-1 and Indiana is 9-3. However, the Hoosiers' last road win over a ranked team came in 2014.
Indiana set a single-season school record for wins but still hasn’t won at NotreDame since 1898. “They took it to us,” said Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, the AP Coach of the Year.
Because NotreDame was too good in the opening game of the CFP not to look ahead. Yes, it turned out the lights on Indiana, one of the best stories in the sport. But NotreDame did that by ...