Notre Dame hasn't let the season's worst loss definite it. Its path to the Playoff shows just how much its third-year coach has grown.

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman, who is 30-9 over his three seasons with the Irish, has agreed to a long-term extension that will make him among the highest-paid coaches in the country, a university official confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.

Ahead of the most important Notre Dame football game in five years, the Fighting Irish are showing how much they believe in head coach Marcus Freeman by signing him to a four-year extension. Freeman will become one of the highest paid College Football coaches in the country,

Freeman was given a contract extension, believed to be four years, and it will make him one of the highest-paid college coaches in the country. Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman have agreed to a long-term extension that will make him among the highest-paid coaches in the country,

Marcus Freeman wasn't even on Notre Dame fans minds a few short years ago but three years in and one extension later, appears the part of the next big thing under the Golden Dome.