Notre Dame is one win away from a long-awaited national championship victory, and the man who helped set the foundation for the program to reach the pinnacle of the s

Brian Kelly is hated by the Fighting Irish fans. Despite all of that, he is still hoping his former team will win the first ever 12 team College Football Playoff.

The program he left, Notre Dame, is preparing for the College Football Playoff national championship against Ohio State on Jan. 20 in Atlanta, under the guidance of Marcus Freeman. The program Kelly joined after leaving Notre Dame in November 2021, LSU, missed this year's College Football Playoff for the third consecutive season under his watch.

Former Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly left the program on bad terms in 2021 when he went to LSU, but he doesn't seem to hold ill feelings towards the team where he coached for 12 years. In fact, Kelly is publicly rooting for the Fighting Irish in the National Championship game vs.

LSU head coach Brian Kelly was the head coach of the Notre Dame football team before joining the Tigers, and he will now watch the Fighting Irish play in the national title game f

Kelly left Notre Dame for LSU and a better shot at a championship, but it's Marcus Freeman and the Irish who will play for a title.

The Fighting Irish’s 27-24 Orange Bowl win over Penn State at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida proved former Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly very wrong about why he left the program.

LSU head coach Brian Kelly remains in headlines after his former program, Notre Dame, punched its ticket to the National Championship on Thursday night. Kelly

The Orange Bowl was a huge win for that program. The fact that they made it all this way — against Penn State, no less — speaks to the job Freeman has done. To go from losing to Northern Illinois at the beginning of the season to playing for a national championship is unheard of.