Love has hurdled defenders from USC, Penn State and more, and he has no plans on stopping as the Irish head into the CFP championship game.

Notre Dame football star running back Jeremiyah Love dropped a huge injury update ahead of the National Championship game against Ohio State. Head coach Marcus Freeman’s team is red hot, having won 13 straight games.

Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love has been hampered by a knee injury since the regular-season finale against the USC Trojans. He even wore a brace during Notre Dame’s 27-24 win over Penn State in the Capital One Orange Bowl — the victory that sent the Fighting Irish to the national championship game against Ohio State.

Based on how the games went during Jeremiyah Love's visits to Notre Dame, its an upset that he wound up in South Bend.

Jeremiyah Love could not be kept out of the end zone during Notre Dame’s Orange Bowl battle with Penn State on Thursday night, and gave an incredible effort to score a wild touchdown for the Fighting Irish. Love’s Herculean effort to get into the end zone early in the fourth quarter briefly gave Notre Dame their first lead of the game.

Ohio State had a couple snoozers to start things off as they dominated their first two CFP games. Ohio State blew out Tennessee at home in the first round as they won 42-17, and then they smoked one seed Oregon in the quarterfinals as it was 31-0 halfway through the second quarter. They cruised to a 41-21 win.

Jan 9, 2025; Miami, FL, USA; Notre Dame Fighting Irish running back Jeremiyah Love (4) celebrates a touch down in the second half against the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl at Hard Rock Stadium. / Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, who has been battling a knee injury, is on track to play against Penn State in the CFP semifinal at the Orange Bowl.

Love was a limited participant in practice over the weekend and wore a brace on the injured knee, Pete Sampson of The Athletic reported Sunday. The standout ballcarrier "looked more limited than the open practice four days before Indiana" at the time but recovered enough to suit up for the next round of the playoff.

The Fighting Irish star running back confirms he’s ready to face Ohio State as Notre Dame chases its first national title in decades.

Even though star running back Jeremiyah Love, the 2022 Missouri Gatorade Player of the Year, was 'good to go' for the prestigious Orange Bowl—a bowl game with a long and storied history—against Penn State,