College Football Playoff First Round Game ·

College Football Playoff First Round Game

College Football Playoff First Round Game Presented by Allstate
No. 9 Indiana11-217
No. 3 Notre Dame12-127Final
Fri, Dec 20 · Notre Dame Stadium · Crowd 77,622 · 26°, cloudyESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

No. 3 Notre Dame beat No. 9 Indiana by 10 points, the College Football Playoff First Round Game.

How the game turned

Notre Dame aheadIndiana aheadBiggest swing
1

Q1 10:57 Notre Dame 7, Indiana 0

Notre Dame 79% to win

Love 98-yd TD run, Notre Dame goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:57 · Notre Dame 7, Indiana 0Notre Dame's win chance rose from 56% to 79%.Love 98-yd TD run, Notre Dame goes ahead 7-0

Notre Dame was never below a 56 percent chance to win. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

The biggest swing

With 10:57 left in the 1st quarter, Notre Dame's chance to win went from 56 percent to 79 percent when Notre Dame scored a touchdown.

The score went from Notre Dame 0, Indiana 0 to Notre Dame 7, Indiana 0.

The play: Love 98-yd TD run, Notre Dame goes ahead 7-0.

What happened next

  1. Indiana finished the 2024 season 11-2, No. 9 in the last AP poll before the bowls.

  2. Notre Dame's next game: W 23-10 vs Georgia in the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, Jan 2

    13 days later

  3. Indiana's first game of the 2025 season: W 27-14 vs Old Dominion, Aug 30, 2025

    about 8 months later

Related pages

Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.

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