Local observers tout the impact of the first Black/Asian American coach to reach the national champs. Coach Freeman points attention back to his team.

The risk associated with composing a pre-national championship panegyric on the University of Notre Dame’s football team ... I went to my first game against Texas A&M on a sweltering August ...

As the Notre Dame football team beat Penn State, running back Jeremiyah Love calls out Ohio State as wanting to face them.

The Texas Longhorns are set to face off against the Ohio State Buckeyes tonight in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams are talented enough to win a national championshi

THE NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH It's not the luck of the Irish. It's the skill, the grit, the perseverance, the clutch factor. Notre Dame beat Penn State, 27-24, in the Orange Bowl to advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship.

Ohio State and Notre Dame arrived in Atlanta on their charter flights on Friday as the teams moved closer to Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game.

For some perspective on Lampkin’s recent rebounding numbers, in the last 20 years, only Jesse Edwards (10.3 rpg in ‘23) and Rick Jackson (10.3 rpg in ‘11) have averaged more than 9.5 rebounds per game.

Marcus Freeman appears determined to make this not about himself, but when one is in the process of achieving something unprecedented, that’s even more difficult than conjuring a gameplan to defeat the 2024 Ohio State Buckeyes on the 20 th day of 2025.

OSU and OU were on the front lines of hiring black coaches in college football. No Alabama. No Georgia, Florida or Tennessee. Black head coaches have been hired at only 29 of the 68 power-conference schools.

It was hard to ignore the connections between Marcus Freeman's fate as he tried to make history on Monday night and all that was happening in America on the day of the big game

The longest college football season ever, starting in August and ending on Inauguration Day, became an Ohio State coronation.