The 2024 college football bowl slate includes 11 games featuring a Big Ten team in play. Among those contests is the Indiana Hoosiers taking on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the College

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — No. 7 Notre Dame cruised past No. 10 Indiana 27-17 in the first game of the 12-team College Football Playoff on Friday night. The Fighting Irish advance to play No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1.

James Franklin owns a 1-15 record against top-five teams, but the Nittany Lions could win their first national championship in nearly four decades without facing one of them. Penn State opens the bracket’s most favorable path with the weakest team in the field. The Mustangs will be overpowered in the trenches.