The Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Penn State Nittany Lions will meet in the Orange Bowl on Thursday for the right to play in the National Championship game of the College Football Playoff. The facts in that sentence alone are enough to make the game an absolute monster game — but there’s so much to this, and fans under the age of 40 are probably unaware why.
Here, for example, is the full Wikipedia entry for the series that a 27 year old who is curious about the historical significance of this game:
Notre Dame and Penn State first met in 1913.