Notre Dame is back in the national championship game for the first time in 12 years and first time ever in the College Football Playoff era. The Fighting Irish outlasted Penn State 27-24 in the Orange Bowl on Thursday to advance to the title game,

Although I called it before the game and believed in it all week since the Sugar Bowl, I sit here now still in disbelief that the Notre Dame Fighting Irish emerged victorious over the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl.