In the final game of his college career he was the Defensive Most Valuable player of the 1991 Orange Bowl.

[3] While at Notre Dame, Zorich attended a class taught by onetime Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren.

degree at Notre Dame[3] and established the Christopher Zorich Foundation in 1993 to assist disadvantaged families.

On May 9, 2007, Zorich was announced as one of the specially selected inductees of the 2007 class at the College Football Hall of Fame.

Not only was he one of the youngest players to ever be inducted, he is only the third defensive lineman from tradition-rich Notre Dame to call the College Football Hall of Fame home.