Here are three keys to the Indiana vs. Notre Dame Playoff game, plus score predictions from across the USA Today Network Indiana newspapers.

Notre Dame players and coaches linked arms in the northeast corner of the field late Friday, waiting to sing the alma mater for the final time at home in 2024. After a slight delay, coach Marcus Freeman bounded into the group,

Notre Dame drawing Indiana in the first round of the CFP created many interesting and complicated layers of perceptual and practical considerations that would not exist if the Irish's opponent was any other team.