Trends from Notre Dame's last college football national title bid - ESPN

After their 27-24 win over the Penn State Nittany Lions on Thursday, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are headed to the College Football Playoff National Championship game in Atlanta.

Notre Dame will match up with the winner of Friday's College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic between the Texas Longhorns and Ohio State Buckeyes.

Marcus Freeman's victory makes him the first Black head coach to take a team to the national championship game.

This isn't the Fighting Irish's first rodeo in a national title game. They last appeared in 2013 when head coach Brian Kelly's squad fell to Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide 42-14 at the BCS National Championship game in Miami.

Here's what the world was like when Notre Dame appeared in a national title game — Jan. 7, 2013.

Bruno Mars was on top of the world after dropping his hit song «Locked Out of Heaven» on Oct. 1, 2012 — the lead single from his second studio album «Unorthodox Jukebox.»

Written by Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, the song sat atop the Billboard Top 100 list for six straight weeks. It also earned Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 2014.

In the years after Grand Theft Auto IV was released in 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, there was a lot of speculation about a new release of the open-world video game. GTA V dropped Sep. 17, 2013, also for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The game is set in Los Santos, a fictional animated city inspired by Los Angeles. It features three main characters — Franklin Clinton, Michael De Santa and Trevor Philips — who cross paths with a shared vision of carrying out heists against criminals and the government.

Within the first five days of its release, GTA V