No. 7 seed Notre Dame is set to play the College Football Playoff national championship against No. 8 Ohio State at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday. Per ESPN BET, the Irish are an 8-point underdog against the Buckeyes.

Doesn't matter where -- around Notre Dame Stadium, past the Grotto or Touchdown Jesus.  The point is, the former Irish athletic director who hired Marcus Freeman should be ripping off his shirt, pounding his chest and whooping at the top of his lungs.

Freeman's Irish team is playing for the national title Monday and the program's outlook hasn't been this positive in decades. But with at least one NFL team interested in him, should he consider a jump to the pros?

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman is trying to end a national championship drought for the Fighting Irish that dates back to when he was a toddler. Freeman, 39, was 2 years old when Lou Holtz led Notre Dame to its most recent title in the 1988 season.

Notre Dame gave an update on some of its injured players just less than a week before the national championship game against Ohio State

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The No. 8 seed Ohio State Buckeyes have won three straight College Football Playoff games by double digits, but none of it will mean much to the city of

Entering the season, Freeman was essentially nowhere to be found on national lists. What a change he has made for both the Irish and himself.

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman, raised in Protestant and Korean Christian traditions, made a life-changing decision after joining the Catholic university. Freeman converted to Catholicism in 2022,