Here's the hour-by-hour breakdown of the weather forecast in South Bend, Indiana, on Friday night: No. 7 Notre Dame's game against No. 10 Indiana is set to kick off at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Dec. 20, from Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.

Ahead of the first ever home game of the 12-team College Football Playoff, it is a very snowy scene in South Bend, IN as No. 5 Notre Dame takes on No. 8 Indiana on Friday night. Much has been made of what kind of impact the weather would have on the first-round games being hosted on college football campuses in late December,

As far as sports metaphors go, football and religion are often jammed together, sometimes more fairly than others. But then, of course, there is Notre Dame, where prayer and mass are fixed into the game-day routine,