Notre Dame celebrates Orange Bowl victory & National Championship bid | ESPN College Football

[@tigerhoods7927]

Imagine being an LSU fan realizing Brian Kelly was what was holding Notre Dame back the whole time

[@jebarr1]

Well put.

[@jackcosmic11]

Ha ha

[@michaelwou1667]

Yes, sir. He was a fraud at Notre Dame but I’m happy that he was smart enough do whatever it takes to hire Marcus Freeman

[@108doublestitches]

did Kelly have the portal and NIL to work with? 13 points around the halftime vs. Georgia were all due to transfer portal players.

[@run_lift_communicate]

I think Marcus Freeman is the best representative of the new era coaches.

[@robertdaubigne3248]

Coach Freeman is a class act!

[@HarlemVega520]

Facts

[@leoandolino4668]

The Coach, the Coaches, the players, the supporters... a class act.

[@tigerhoods7927]

Only took three years for Marcus Freeman to take Notre Dame to the national championship game. Dang impressive.

[@enniswhalen2428]

@ th 79 - Don't worry, 3 years ago, he was NOT their first choice AND was hailed by the pundits as a "DEI" hire . . . we have a long way to go . . it is STILL a novelty to see a black head football coach . . . shame . . .

[@Irishhaf]

@@enniswhalen2428 naw not all of us, second I saw the reaction of the players when he was introduced as the head coach, I thought this could be good. Seeing how calm and encouraging he is to the kids through thick and thin... I thought oh yea this was definitely the right guy. Hes got these kids ready to run through a wall to fight a fire with just a mouth full of spit, he has that... it factor for coaching.

[@victorgwynn6588]

I know Brian Kelly is disgusted right now

[@SuperSparrow45]

TBF, Kelly took them to the NCG in year 3. Granted, it was back when they just had to not lose every game.

[@gato6100]

Having Nick Saven retired helped alot , if not Alabama would be playing for the national championship

[@mattr27]

Notre Dame playing in the title game is excellent for college football.

[@Jleed989]

Only if you’re an ND fan

[@MichaelPetrone-ng5yx]

@Lleed989 Not really - even McAfee in his program of a few days ago gave a shout out for the Teams Faith

[@johnnycicero4709]

i know NCAA is hating Notre Dame right now because no conference is represented. BTW, set a record for 7 wins against ranked teams in a season. OUR LADY OF VICTORY........

[@jamallowe119]

🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@stephenpoole5331]

......PRAY FOR US!

[@LaStOnE_leFt]

Yet they dog our strength of schedule every chance they get! They're such haters! I love this team and Coach Freeman! We had a flu outbreak in the last 48 hrs, key injuries and no excuses! We just find a way to get it done! That second int PI call was crap! He didn't turn around to look for the ball but never made contact either. The 1st was a good call, no complaints! But that second one was bad IMO . The at 12:20 on a decent pass play for them the right DE got held so bad and no call. They tried to steal it away from us but couldn't! Nothing but respect for Penn St and their fans! Great game, and great season!

[@108doublestitches]

@@johnnycicero4709 how many were ranked at the end of the regular season

[@earlmiles6334]

Congrats ND. One of the greatest, nail biters in history! Also, to the Penn, great season. I know it hurts. Great season. Just a flip of the coin. Respect.

[@MugDoe1201]

Freeman has these kids backs. They know it, he really loves them and he's dedicated 100%. Go Irish

[@BuddahHass2360]

Congratulations Notre Dame they really kept fighting and won a really good game...

[@jebarr1]

Wonder what accent Brian Kelly is using tonight?

[@BigMike4daWin]

funny as heck

[@A-A-RON52]

Marcus freeman now has done more for Notre dame football than Brian Kelly did in 12 years. Feel sorry for LSU

[@StFidjnr]

Hopefully to win their 1st national championship since 1988 (season)

[@gato6100]

Thats going to be hard vs OSU

[@StFidjnr]

@gato6100 or texas

[@gato6100]

@@StFidjnr OSU offense is unstoppable with OC Chip Kelly orchestrating it

[@cgates2]

UGA fan. I’m rooting for y’all. When we won the National Championship back in 2021, we hadn’t one since 1981. It felt truly surreal. Like winning the lottery. I never actually believed we would win one in my lifetime deep down.

[@bobbymariani2839]

Freeman is him 💯 Sugar Bowl ✅ Orange Bowl ✅ National Championship 🏆 Penn State WRs 0 catches 0 yards 0 TDs

[@getcloveryourself]

They made orange juice

[@jin1919lee]

As Korean American am proud of coach Freeman as not first black but also first Korean Asian as well, great win, 1win away from championship go Irish

[@michaelwou1667]

He is the first Asian coach to go to the National Championship game

[@monicaricco3392]

So what! He is not a racist

[@tainted_timmy6726]

Yeah they forgot about that. Put in their eyes he's just black

[@Charris2382]

@@tainted_timmy6726 Who espn or white people lol?

[@michaelwou1667]

@@monicaricco3392 what are you talking about, Karen?

[@Drop9071]

Instead of celebrating Marcus Freeman and his contributions to not only Notre Dame, but to college football . People have to become a Karen.

[@GracielaNuñez-k4w]

Coach Marcus you are an amazing person!!!!! You keep your head up high all the time!!!!

[@sithlrd70]

Notre Dame Wins and Coach Freeman is The Coach of the Year 💯☘️.

[@p.j.jackson1744]

I'm still in disbelief

[@stevencoppess3351]

It's 4 in the morning iam still disbelief

[@eugenefarrell1002]

Watching in Dublin Ireland, Love ND for never giving up with all the injuries, to everyone at ND Thank you... Go Irish ☘️💚🇮🇪

[@1Phepsi]

Both Coach Freeman and Riley Leonard gave credit to the team, they are truly class acts.

[@keyrob_sadauski2]

Great game. Congrats Notre Dame. Go win it all. - PSU fan

[@run_lift_communicate]

Marcus Freeman, is the captain of the new era in football coaching. The best! Go Irish!☘️

[@cherrybomb1229]

Coach Freeman is awesome🎉

[@TheClearwall]

Let’s finish this. Win the natty IRISH!

[@EmiliaAchmadi]

Never doubt!!!! God Country Notre Dame ☘️ So proud!!!!

[@gato6100]

"Im the one that got us in that position/hole" Eventhough I criticize Leonard for not being perfect as everyone says, I have lots of respect for being so honest, he acknowledged his responsibility, mistakes and corrected it and gave credit where it was deserved

[@ManyPeregrine81]

Fantastic answer Coach!! Thank you for sharing this legendary moment in College Football 🏈 and this is coming from a Georgia Bulldogs fan. 😅

[@raveouscarlias4479]

Hey Dawg fan, I love seeing classy fans from UGA. You guys seem to have a high percentage of classy fans. Shoutout to you Dawgs, you're gonna be scary next year too. Saw the work you've been doing in the portal and obviously top recruiting class.

[@aledaandytaylor2613]

Thank god freeman is our coach he is 5-1 in bowl games in his third season as coach and we will win the national championship on 20 January, this will definitely help notre dame recruiting

[@tainted_timmy6726]

Finally and once again we'll be on top.... Again!

[@FredJohnson-o3s]

AFTER LOSING TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS NOTRE DAME WON 12 IN A ROW 🤯🤯

[@StFidjnr]

That is the wake-up call for the fighting Irish

[@getcloveryourself]

*13 in a row

[@FredJohnson-o3s]

@getcloveryourself you are right my friend 🤝🏼👍🏻

[@Drop9071]

This was a historic moment for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, most wins in school history and they are headed to Atlanta to play for a national championship. They continue to prove all the doubters wrong🎉

[@sharonbrady931]

What a game! Go IRISH!

[@timderosa7802]

4 quarters away. Brian Kelly is losing sleep over this team

[@RobertDexter-n7r]

Coach Freeman U Rock Bro!!! Big Time proud of u man!!!!

[@your_monthly_dose_of_gaming]

W notre dame🔥🏈

[@BMedina-v2p]

Marcus freeman! God bless you brother! May your future forever be bright

[@Tri.dawg1]

I’m happy Nortre dame found they Coach Respect 💯💯💯

[@eddyredmond7758]

I love that man!!!

[@deontewhitfielddw]

MOMMA DONT PLAY WIT EM!!!!!!! Notre Dame gotta bunch of Dawgs AND THEY IS VICIOUS!!!!!

[@teddyghioto]

Dat rite dare beez tru

[@anthonyellis6306]

I love how the coach deflects race. They keep bringing it and he cares more about the team. What a classy man

[@jeffmonaghan]

Congratulations 👏 #GoIrish ☘️🏈

[@Tony-rz4ks]

Go Irish from snowy Dallas, Texas

[@TheClearwall]

I live in Dallas but I’m stranded in Toronto

[@averagegamer2471]

Go IRISH!! ☘️🇮🇪🍀

[@raveouscarlias4479]

So happy for Marcus Freeman and the IRISH!. Dude is an AWESOME Guy, great coach and teacher. The future of ND is in good hands.

[@richardpenrod2911]

Loved X throwing the oranges.

[@OrlandoBoneshirt]

Well said coach

[@BMedina-v2p]

Im so happy! My god, go irish! Im so proud of yall. Im so estatic. Thank you boys. And mr freeman so much. God bless you

[@michaelwou1667]

Brian Kelly is purple face tonight. He said ND doesn’t have the resources and culture to win. Well eat some crow, coach.

[@tainted_timmy6726]

This teams culture is what got them here. Something you can't coach, and that showed with Kelly's coaching... He wasn't in it

[@jlooney5lucas96]

Proud of ND my favorite football 🏈 team

[@markbrown2784]

As a black man, i have to say, she just had to ask that stupid question. And I'm glad he responded that he did. It's been too long for Notre Dame! Woooooo congratulations

[@ztgb2887]

We’re a bunch of savages!

[@Jay-pd9kc]

Let’s go Irish ☘️ proud to be an ND fan

[@BMedina-v2p]

Lets go guys. One more.

[@JohnDoe-sm7zm]

I never thought my notre dame would be at the nc game at 33 years man congrats 🎉 I'm so proud of these guys 💯

[@Officialshicaego]

Shoutout to the land let’s go win it all 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[@DavidRichmond]

Literally espn has to bring up people’s color..coach said it best, it’s not about me it’s about us! How about do not judge a person by their skin rather then their character and he has great character! Stop focusing on skin color ESPN!!

[@stephenpoole5331]

I don't think they can help themselves.

[@DavidRichmond]

@ you’re right! They have to keep us divided..All. The. Time.

[@ChRisu_Ojisan]

@DavidRichmond yeah they forgot he is just as much Korean as he is black.

[@fernandogomez1133]

In some ways this match was like David vs Goliath and pride vs humbleness congratulations to Notre Dame for really fighting for the victory thanks to God for helping them

[@ShePaidCash]

AMEN ✊🏾 Congratulations Coach 🎊🏆

[@mbaris79]

From the NIU defeat to the championship game. Great story.

[@JimScannell-m8f]

NOTRE DAME FOREVER!

[@ChRisu_Ojisan]

Why do they have to say the " first black head coach" when he is half korean?. He is also the first asian head coach

[@HippoBoy999]

Yea the fact that fact is so disrespectful

[@jefferymonez3146]

Been a notredame fan since 71 go Irish love yankee

[@Panzernator]

Onward to victory!

[@AngelsEvans]

happy ND!

[@gato6100]

Jitter should be the offensive player of the game, he was the game winner under so much pressure, if he had missed the winning FG and they would have gone to OT, PSU would have won

[@mljonly1me]

Well deserved! Boys never wavered a NFC made it happen. Coach Freeman get your flowers brotha. First Black Coach to take a team to a national championship! Your accomplishment matters along with The resilient play by the squad! Let’s go ND we in there ☘️🔥☘️🔥☘️🔥☘️🔥☘️🔥☘️

[@mljonly1me]

Never wavered *and

[@HippoBoy999]

He’s Korean too 💀

[@lilstan314]

Yeah CG29 Desmet!

[@lynnerose7891]

Molly is so good 🎉

[@omutvtube3910]

How about that ND secondary just wow

[@fernandogomez1133]

This fighting Irish go beyond strong and they want to be stronger and they will not settle for anything else their minds are focus in that moto we can be stronger in Jesus name amen

[@pacerprodsyt]

Natty Bound🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@SamSalgado-b7m]

Golden victory coach😂

[@mikelathrop6584]

The IRISH don't need no stinking conference,,we'll play anyone anywhere,,we ain't scared!!!!!

[@omutvtube3910]

Totally Love it. South Bend Baby. Irish ☘️ Rocks! Now, on to beat Ohio State. If not Texas But yeah the Buckeyes bring it on!!!

[@LooseCannon-s8f]

If i hear "the first black coach" one more time, i swear. He 1000% is not black. Half is half, simple.

[@ChRisu_Ojisan]

@LooseCannon-s8f black NFL player are saying it too. They all forget he is half Korean.

[@nickbrown1843]

As an ND fan I have genuinely never said this about an opposing QB - especially one I had a predisposed opinion on - but hes a dog man. I'm sorry for the pain it causes yalls fanbase but you'll be back. God Willing. Go Irish.

[@Michael-im2lk]

Whoop hoooooo

[@Drop9071]

Notre Dame wins the Sugar Bowl and then after that they win the Orange Bowl only to share the stage with the Capital One banking guy😂

[@southsidefrog1236]

Why is his skin color brought up ? Because hes a black coach? Its not about him , its about the team!!! Nobody has ever said , oh york is the first European to take a team to the show 😂😂😂😂 stop that bs!!

[@trevortomah8508]

Well, its of to the Natty for the NDFI.

[@Hockeystars16-x4z]

Come on osu finish off Texas

[@ReadIcculus93]

God loves football, and I'm an atheist 😂

[@musicman76enator]

RIGGED!!! 😂

[@justinkeaton7969]

Notre Dame is basically playing with second stringers and still grinding out wins. Stop pretending this isnt special. Go Irish! Go Freeman!

[@BrookeHalsey-i8l]

Until have play buckeye don't et o excited.

[@GazelleSlays]

The refs were amazing today🎉

[@streetliving]

B.S.

[@Whynotmini]

Did what they could but the refs couldn’t beat notre dame by themselves lol

[@notredame59]

eagles suck

[@GazelleSlays]

@ shut up

[@jackcosmic11]

I’m a eagles fan and Notre dame fan :)

[@TyroneBiggums789]

Ohio state wins by 28

[@richardgazdyka8716]

ND will shut down their receivers and heat Will Howard up Keep watching Texts might beat u

[@taesreturn]

OSU RAHHH❤❤❤❤🤍🤍🤍

[@ThaTawpDawg]

Walmart Tebow 😂

[@AlihaSingh]

Notre Dame and DEI Marcus will be a ragdoll just like Brian Kelly in 2012 against Alabama. Still soft and slow and lucked into weak bracket.

[@tainted_timmy6726]

😂 you think so huh

[@AdrianERosales]

Bring it. 🍀

[@AlihaSingh]

@tainted_timmy6726 lol not think. I know. And I will be back here to rub it in.

[@CoreyTealer]

God bless Notre Dame. ☘️🏈 Congrats fellas. But the job is not done yet. Don't get satisfied. Be ready for the next one. And that is, the national championship.

[@Miridafeo]

Well said coach.

[@aliciahaulcy4143]

DON'T FORGET DANIEL"RUDY"RUETTIGER... from (662) Clarksdale Mississippi Pride 👏👏👏