While many who don't respect the Irish are quick to point out, often inaccurately, that Notre Dame "doesn't play anybody," the upcoming series the Irish have set up paints a very different picture. According to On3, Notre Dame is involved in four of the top ten series coming up.

Notre Dame is at Miami (Florida) in Week 1 of the 2025 college football season, and the tilt between the Fighting Irish and the Hurricanes will be an ABC broadcast. The Saturday, Aug. 31 game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Eastern and is part of a slew of Week 0 and Week 1 games that will be shown on ESPN or ABC.

Georgia 2026 4-star running back Jonaz Walton will make his commitment today, and the experts weigh in on if he will join Notre Dame’s class.

Peacock exclusively streams a Notre Dame Football game for the fifth consecutive season on Saturday, Oct. 11, when the Fighting Irish host North Carolina State at 3:30 p.m. ET. The Fighting Irish defeated the Wolfpack, 45-24, in their most recent meeting in 2023.

Get to know the class of 2026 prospects committed to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in this feature from Blue & Gold. We have provided background info on each of the commits below (in chronological order from the newest pledge to the oldest) and will continue to update this article each time Notre Dame lands a new commitment.

Notre Dame will host defensive lineman Marcus Almada for an official visit in June. Almada, who is playing his high-school football at Marion (Mass.) Tabor Academy, will be in South Bend to visit with the Fighting Irish on June 13. He has already visited UCLA and Oklahoma State and has more on the docket, including Kentucky and Syracuse.

The Fighting Irish will face some of the top teams in college football throughout NBC Sports' seven-game slate.

Irish Breakdown is joined by Southern Cal insider RJ Abeytia for plenty of Trojan topics on today's show. IB's Sean Stires asks Abeytia about the future of the Notre Dame -USC football series, the impact of Lincoln Riley hiring former Irish GM Chad Bowden to the same position in Troy, Riley's future and more.