New Year's Day has traditionally been one of the best football-watching days of the year. This year should be even better. In the first year of the 12-team Co

Notre Dame and Penn State have traveled shockingly similar paths to reach this year's College Football Playoff semifinal. Both are amongst the sports blue blood class of schools, both have struggled to find any kind of national success in recent decades,

Penn State and Notre Dame entered this season with a combined zero College Football Playoff victories. Now, the two programs are on the doorstep of the national championship game. The No. 6-seeded Nittany Lions and No.