Notre Dame adapts on the fly to its longest season and changing schedule as CFP semifinal arrives

(AP) - Notre Dame receiver Beaux Collins will remember this College Football Playoff run for several reasons and one of them is how he sprinted through the team’s New Orleans hotel hallways like a fun-loving child.That is how some of the Fighting Irish coped with an unexpected day off before last week's Sugar Bowl, a timeline driven by tragedy after a man used his speeding truck as a weapon in the nearby French Quarter, killing more than a dozen people.Collins, his Notre Dame teammates and