College Football Playoff: Notre Dame beats Penn State in Orange Bowl on late field goal

Notre Dame is playing for a national title for the first time in 12 seasons.

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.

The kick came after Notre Dame's Christian Gray intercepted Penn State's Drew Allar with 33 seconds to go in Penn State territory. Notre Dame got the ball back with 2:27 to go and had a chance to win the game on that drive, but a third-down sack of Riley Leonard forced the Irish to punt the ball back to Penn State with less than a minute to go.

The Irish took over at the 42 yard-line and had all three timeouts and got into a makeable field goal range for Jeter on a third-down pass from Leonard to Jaden Greathouse. Two plays later, Leonard centered the ball in the middle of the field to set up Jeter's kick.

Penn State had a chance for a last-ditch touchdown after the field goal but the drive started with an incomplete pass and ended with a lateral-filled play that concluded with Allar flinging the ball out of bounds.