Live updates, highlights, game score: No. 7 Notre Dame vs. No. 10 Indiana in College Football Playoff
The 12-team College Football Playoff — and the first on-campus postseason game in college football history — starts now at Notre Dame.
Follow along for Blue & Gold‘s live updates, highlights and game score as the No. 7 Irish take on the No. 10 Indiana Hoosiers. The most recent updates will appear at the top of the page, with older updates toward the bottom.
SCORE: Indiana recovers onside kick, reaches end zone again… but can’t convert the 2-point conversion
12/20/2024 10:32:21 PMThe Hoosiers will try an onside kick again, but with 25 seconds left and Notre Dame up 27-17, NOW it’s over.
SCORE: Indiana makes the final more palatable
12/20/2024 10:18:53 PMRourke found Myles Price for a 7-yard touchdown. Notre Dame will likely win this game 27-11.
SCORE: Leonard delivers the dagger
12/20/2024 10:05:22 PMLeonard fooled everyone with a keeper at the goal line, and that is all she wrote. He set it up with a 46-yard pass to sophomore wide receiver Jordan Faison, who has 7 receptions for 89 yards in the game. Notre Dame leads 27-3 and is going to win the football game.
BIG PLAY: Jeter’s kick is blocked
12/20/2024 09:45:20 PMIndiana defensive tackle James Carpenter got his hand in the air and blocked Jeter’s third field-goal attempt. Notre Dame’s drive stalled, because the Irish couldn’t handle the Hoosiers’ defensive front. The score remains 20-3.
SCORE: Jeter hits again; Notre Dame takes three-score lead
12/20/2024 09:23:06 PMAn odd sequence of events — inexcusable IU penalty, failed fake canceled out by Hoosiers timeout — ends in a 33-yard Jeter field goal. He’s 2-of-2, and the Irish lead 20-3.
SCORE: Notre Dame kicker Mitch Jeter hits a 49-yard field goal
12/20/2024 08:35:01 PMJeter has made a field goal for the first time in six weeks. His last successful attempt came on Nov. 9 vs. Florida State. The 48-yard try goes in, and Notre Dame leads 17-3. Jeter is fired up.
SCORE: Indiana closes the gap to 14-3
12/20/2024 08:25:27 PMA 34-yard field goal put the Hoosiers down by 11.
SCORE: Riley Leonard finds Jayden Thomas for a 14-0 Notre Dame lead
12/20/2024 07:48:46 PMLove got the drive off (he had been sitting down on the sideline), but Price and Williams did a terrific job in his place. Leonard hit Thomas on a play-action pass wide open in the end zone to cap a 16-play, 83-yard drive for a touchdown.
SCORE: Jeremiyah Love goes NINETY-EIGHT YARDS for six
12/20/2024 07:22:30 PMYep. Ninety-eight yards. He’s healthy, and he just gave Notre Dame a 7-0 lead. It’s madness in South Bend early.
BIG PLAY: Xavier Watts does it again
12/20/2024 07:18:00 PMXavier Watts is always in the right place at the right time. Must be a coincidence. He picked off Indiana quarterback Kurtis Rourke for his 13th interception in the past two seasons, and Notre Dame has the football inside its own 5-yard line.
BIG PLAY: Indiana intercepts Riley Leonard’s first pass
12/20/2024 07:13:58 PMLeonard had Eli Raridon over the middle, but a Hoosier defensive lineman got his hand in the passing lane. The ball was tipped up into the air and intercepted by D’Angelo Ponds, and IU takes over at the Notre Dame 41-yard line.
Notre Dame has won the toss and elected to defer
12/20/2024 07:06:47 PMThe call was tails. The coin lands on heads. Indiana will start with the ball. The College Football Playoff starts now.
