The No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish will face the No. 6 Penn State Nittany Lions (13-2) in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff.

Penn State’s longtime mascot is a common mountain lion, the kind that roamed the mountains near the school’s State College campus until the late 19th century. One of the Nittany Lions’ historic rivals, the Pitt Panthers, has a similar taxonomic nickname for a similar reason.