Aiden Fisher, of Curt Cignetti's 2025-26 College Football Playoff National Championship team, calls his journey to the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis "a blessing."

The College Football Playoff bracket sends No. 10 seed Indiana to No. 7 Notre Dame for a first-round game on Dec. 20 with the winner facing No. 2 Georgia in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. The Indiana and Notre Dame campuses are separated by 200 miles but their football teams haven’t met since 1991. Georgia has played Notre Dame three times and all were high-stakes games. The Bulldogs have never played Indiana.