The rumors turned out to be true, as on Wednesday news broke that Notre Dame football will hire Chris Ash as its new defensive coordinator.

Chris Ash, a former Rutgers head coach who spent the past four years in the NFL, will be Notre Dame's new defensive coordinator.

Approximately 15 seconds later while Kirk Herbstreit was talking, Ohio State snapped the ball and Will Howard tossed the ball to Emeka Egbuka. As Egbuka was brought down after a b

Urban Meyer hired Ash as co-defensive coordinator for the 2014-15 seasons at Ohio State. In 2014 Ash was part of the Buckeye squad that won the national championship. Ohio State ranked 26th in scoring defense (22.0), 19th in total defense (342.4 YPG) and 25th in yards per play (5.0).

Usually, Chris Fowler receives a ton of praise from college football fans for being a fair play-by-play broadcaster. That's not the case this Monday night though. While the excitement has certainly been there from Fowler,

While recapping the game with Herbstreit and Scott Van Pelt, Fowler made a bold claim that Notre Dame's first possession was the best opening drive he'd ever seen. He acknowledged how solid of a defense the drive came against and how much time it chewed.

Notre Dame may have gotten a little too cute on one of their playcalls in Monday's national championship game against Ohio State. The Fighting Irish

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Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach Marcus Freeman had a moment after the Ohio State Buckeyes won the national championship that caught the attention of the college football world. Freeman witnessed his team mount a late comeback before falling short, 34-23, to the Buckeyes.

Here’s who’s on the call for ESPN’s broadcast of the College Football Playoff national title game between Ohio State and Notre Dame.

The Notre Dame vs. Ohio State football game is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT start on ESPN on Monday, Jan. 20. Chris Fowler is expected to do the play-by-play. Kirk Herbstreit is expected to join him in the booth.

Irish Illustrated's Tim O'Malley also contributed to this story. Notre Dame is seriously considering Chris Ash as the ... serving in the same role with the Fighting Irish for the previous three ...