ESPN’s College Gameday announced that it will be in South Bend for Notre Dame VS Indiana Hoosiers in the first round of the college football playoff. It also announced that on the next day, the show will be in Columbus for Ohio State VS Tennessee Volunteers.

“College GameDay” last came to South Bend a season ago. That was before the Irish infamously had only 10 men on the field on the play that caused them to lose in gut-wrenching fashion to Ohio State. Hopefully, the Irish fans who gather on the Library Lawn this time around will be a lot happier after this upcoming appearance.

The bigness of Notre Dame's home College Football Playoff game against Indiana can't be understated. The seventh-seeded Fighting Irish host the 10th-seeded Hoosiers in the first-ever College Football Playoff game to be played on a college campus.

It is rivalry weekend across NCAA college football, and while Notre Dame at USC is a big game, it’s not big enough to entice ESPN College GameDay to be on site. Instead they headed to College Station to be on hand for the Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies to battle it out in a big-time SEC matchup.

The USC Trojans host the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday afternoon. The Trojans come into the game as home underdogs.  Did ESPN’s College GameDay crew pic

Indiana travels to Notre Dame in a first-round College Football Playoff game. A breakdown of the matchups when the Fighting Irish face the Hoosiers.

The Battle of Indiana is a hot ticket to kick off the first ever 12-team College Football Playoff, as the 10th-ranked Indiana Hoosiers visit the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend.