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MIAMI GARDENS | Notre Dame kicker Mitch Jeter made a 41-yard field goal with 7 seconds remaining, lifting the Fighting Irish over Penn State 27-24 in an epic Orange Bowl on Thursday. Notre Dame advanced to its first College Football Playoff national championship game, and Penn State ended the most prolific season in school history at 13-3.

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The Fighting Irish started slowly, but rallied to take down the Nittany Lions and advance to the national championship game.

Mitch Jeter made a 41-yard field goal with eight seconds left to give the Fighting Irish a 27-24 win over Penn State in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night. The Irish will play the winner of Ohio State and Texas in the Cotton Bowl on Friday. MITCH JETER SENDS NOTRE DAME TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP pic.twitter.com/YdqDlws9pK

Mitch Jeter hit a go-ahead 41-yard field goal with seven seconds left, which was set up by a Christian Gray interception at the Penn State 42-yard line with 33 seconds left to play.

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The first College Football Playoff semifinal will be in the warmth of Florida as the rest of the national hit by a cold spell in the first full week of the new year. Notre Dame and Penn State clash in the Orange Bowl with the winner advancing to the national title game and a chance to end its school's long championship drought.