Notre Dame football had its season end abruptly in 2025, but that doesn't change the fact that the future for the program is still incredibly high. Head coach Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish staff have done an outstanding job of finding talent,

The College Football Playoff has confirmed a change for Notre Dame in 2026. The Fighting Irish went 10-2 this past season. They were ranked No. 10 in the country heading into the final weekend. However,

The interest in Hill isn’t a major surprise. Rivals Industry Rankings place him as a four-star recruit, the No. 15 cornerback and the No. 160 player in the nation. As a junior at St. John Bosco High School, he had 11 tackles, six interceptions and three pass deflections.

Notre Dame football had another massive recruiting victory on Monday when they landed elite 2027 Raleigh (N.C.) Cardinal Gibbons cornerback Xavier Hasan over an elite offer list. That included over finalists Ohio State,

Sources say Notre Dame and Freeman have not yet completed a reworked deal but are motivated to finish it, hopefully by year’s end.

Now, we are seeing some of the roster fallout that is expected at the end of the season. Notably, backup quarterback Kenny Minchey has announced that he will enter the transfer portal when it opens at the start of the new year.

Could Notre Dame football's future schedules be trashed because of its undisclosed College Football Playoff (CFP) agreement?

To Notre Dame fans as well as to a certain portion of the American Catholic populace, Knute Rockne remains a mythic figure—the founding father of the legend of the Fighting Irish.

Notre Dame football’s 2026 recruiting class is not just highly rated. It is battle-tested. Four Fighting Irish pledges closed their senior seasons by winning state championships, delivering decisive performances on the sport’s biggest high school stages.