Penn State-Notre Dame will air on ESPN. The game will also be available to stream on ESPN.com and the ESPN app. This will be Penn State's sixth Orange Bowl appearance and first since they won it in 2006. Notre Dame will also be playing in its sixth Orange Bowl, with the Fighting Irish's last appearance coming back in 1996.

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,