That question is going to be asked all week leading up to the College Football Playoff championship game between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 8 Ohio State at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday.

(Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) At a time when the watercooler ... Thirty-six years after Lou Holtz added a championship to the storied history of Notre Dame football ...

Sometimes your favorite team’s loss can be so crushing it can feel like it will nearly kill you. That’s what stand-up comedian and well-known Notre Dame fan Shane Gillis is claiming happened with his ...

Cox/Getty Images) So there was Marcus Freeman ... Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz. The Golden Dome and Touchdown Jesus. Which brought me to my conversation Saturday with Freeman, sitting ...

Clark, the former NFL safety and current ESPN football analyst ... school's first national championship since the 1988 season under Lou Holtz. It's been a while since the Irish have experienced ...

Terry Smith, a former wide receiver and the Nittany Lions’ current cornerbacks coach ... as head coach Lou Holtz went for a two-point conversion, and quarterback Rick Mirer’s pass to running ...

Jerome Miron-Imagn Images When the Buckeyes exited the room ... and I certainly coached at a lot of other places," said Lou Holtz, chuckling when discussing his 11 years in South Bend, winning ...

Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame are not just fighting against the odds as the underdogs on Monday; they're fighting against their own history.

Retired coach Lou Holtz was the last Notre Dame coach to win a national championship with the Fighting Irish in 1988. Coach Marcus Freeman now has the chance to join him on hallowed ground when he ...

Holtz, 88, reignited their feud last week on X when he wrote that, “If Notre Dame doesn’t win, it’s because we want to preserve Ryan Day’s job. I was originally going to be at the game in spirit, but ...