Here's the hour-by-hour breakdown of the weather forecast in South Bend, Indiana, on Friday night: No. 7 Notre Dame's game against No. 10 Indiana is set to kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Dec. 20, from Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.

The first-ever home College Football Playoff game in the first-ever year of the expanded, 12-team format saw FootballScoop have a presence on the field for the Hoosier State Showdown that pitted upstart, No. 10 seeded Indiana at tradition-rich, seventh-seeded Notre Dame.Photographer Stephen Kenney braved the cold elements -- kickoff temps in the 20s, feels-like temps in the upper teens -- to capture the moments. View the 42 images of this gallery on the original article

As far as sports metaphors go, football and religion are often jammed together, sometimes more fairly than others. But then, of course, there is Notre Dame, where prayer and mass are fixed into the game-day routine,