Notre Dame Fighting Irish
FBS
FBS Independents · ND
Team Vitals
+35.6
power · 2026 · #1 D1
+22.4 / +13.2
off / def (higher = better)
2–0
2026 record
113
roster (2026)
Team profile 2025 · vs 136 FBS teams
Percentile against every FBS team, from 2025 play with garbage time excluded. No 2026 game has been played yet, so this describes last season.
- Win rate 90%ile 0.833
- Offense (PPA/play) 98%ile 0.447
- Defense (PPA allowed) 96%ile -0.027
- Offensive success rate 96%ile 0.514
- Defensive success rate allowed 93%ile 0.346
- Explosiveness 98%ile 1.488
- Explosiveness allowed 46%ile 1.281
- Plays per game 4%ile 52.2
median · bars right of it are above the FBS average · pace is a style, not a grade
Upcoming 2026
| Date | Wk | Opponent | Site | Model Lean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | Wk 3 | Michigan State FBS | HOME | Notre Dame 89% |
| 2026-09-26 | Wk 4 | Purdue FBS | AWAY | Notre Dame 91% |
| 2026-10-03 | Wk 5 | North Carolina FBS | AWAY | Notre Dame 90% |
| 2026-10-10 | Wk 6 | Stanford FBS | HOME | Notre Dame 98% |
| 2026-10-17 | Wk 7 | BYU FBS | AWAY | Notre Dame 70% |
| 2026-10-31 | Wk 9 | Navy FBS | NEUTRAL | Notre Dame 95% |
| 2026-11-07 | Wk 10 | Miami FBS | HOME | Notre Dame 70% |
| 2026-11-14 | Wk 11 | Boston College FBS | HOME | Notre Dame 98% |
| 2026-11-21 | Wk 12 | SMU FBS | HOME | Notre Dame 74% |
| 2026-11-28 | Wk 13 | Syracuse FBS | AWAY | Notre Dame 96% |
Recent Results
| Date | Season | Wk | Opponent | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-12 | 2026 | Wk 2 | Rice vs | W | 52–0 |
| 2026-09-06 | 2026 | Wk 1 | Wisconsin vs | W | 41–13 |
| 2025-11-29 | 2025 | Wk 14 | Stanford @ | W | 49–20 |
| 2025-11-22 | 2025 | Wk 13 | Syracuse vs | W | 70–7 |
| 2025-11-15 | 2025 | Wk 12 | Pittsburgh @ | W | 37–15 |
| 2025-11-08 | 2025 | Wk 11 | Navy vs | W | 49–10 |
| 2025-11-01 | 2025 | Wk 10 | Boston College @ | W | 25–10 |
| 2025-10-18 | 2025 | Wk 8 | USC vs | W | 34–24 |
| 2025-10-11 | 2025 | Wk 7 | NC State vs | W | 36–7 |
| 2025-10-04 | 2025 | Wk 6 | Boise State vs | W | 28–7 |
| 2025-09-27 | 2025 | Wk 5 | Arkansas @ | W | 56–13 |
| 2025-09-20 | 2025 | Wk 4 | Purdue vs | W | 56–30 |
Season by Season
| Season | W | L | PF | PA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 93 | 13 | +80 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 504 | 211 | +293 |
| 2024 | 14 | 2 | 578 | 248 | +330 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 | 509 | 207 | +302 |
| 2022 | 9 | 4 | 413 | 299 | +114 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2 | 458 | 256 | +202 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2 | 401 | 236 | +165 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2 | 478 | 233 | +245 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1 | 408 | 237 | +171 |
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | 445 | 279 | +166 |
| 2016 | 4 | 8 | 371 | 334 | +37 |
| 2015 | 10 | 3 | 445 | 313 | +132 |
Injuries
Not an injury report. College football has no league-wide mandated one, and the ESPN feed we poll has carried the same three players all season — so an empty table here means nothing has been reported to us, not that the team is healthy. Nothing on this page, and nothing in our model, uses it.
Player grades 2026 season
Box production, opponent-adjusted, ranked within position (50 = positional average). OL rows are team-inferred — college football publishes no individual OL box stats. Full leaderboard →
| Player | Pos | Grade | Pos rank | G | 2026 season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Vinci team-inferred | OL | 94 | #1 | 1 | — |
| CJ Carr | QB | 86 | #6 | 2 | 492 pass yds · 6 TD · 0 INT |
| Spencer Porath | K | 79 | #11 | 2 | 3 FG · 12 XP · 21 pts |
| Nolan James Jr. | RB | 77 | #47 | 2 | 48 rush yds · 2 TD · 5 rec |
| Jordan Faison | WR | 76 | #79 | 2 | 8 rec · 135 yds · 2 TD |
| Boubacar Traore | DL | 74 | #170 | 2 | 3 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 2.0 TFL |
| DJ McKinney | DB | 73 | #186 | 2 | 1 tkl · 1 PD · 1 INT |
| Bryce Young | DL | 73 | #218 | 2 | 7 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 3.5 TFL |
| Aneyas Williams | RB | 72 | #98 | 2 | 119 rush yds · 2 TD · 1 rec |
| James Flanigan | TE | 66 | #93 | 1 | 2 rec · 10 yds · 1 TD |
| Micah Gilbert | WR | 64 | #322 | 2 | 5 rec · 81 yds · 1 TD |
| Cooper Flanagan | TE | 63 | #118 | 2 | 3 rec · 15 yds · 1 TD |
| Francis Brewu | DL | 60 | #865 | 2 | 4 tkl · 1.0 sacks · 1.0 TFL |
| Jaiden Ausberry | LB | 59 | #499 | 2 | 12 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Adon Shuler | DB | 58 | #868 | 2 | 9 tkl |
| Drayk Bowen | LB | 58 | #537 | 2 | 11 tkl · 1.0 TFL |
| Leonard Moore | DB | 57 | #976 | 1 | 5 tkl · 1 PD |
| Luke Talich | DB | 56 | #1010 | 2 | 8 tkl |
| Tionne Gray | DL | 56 | #1152 | 2 | 6 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Jayden Sanders | DB | 55 | #1135 | 1 | 1 tkl · 2 PD |
| Jerome Bettis Jr. | WR | 54 | #762 | 1 | 2 rec · 61 yds |
| Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa | LB | 54 | #760 | 1 | 5 tkl · 1.5 TFL |
| Jaden Greathouse | WR | 53 | #800 | 2 | 4 rec · 54 yds |
| Logan Saldate | WR | 51 | #896 | 1 | 3 rec · 36 yds |
| Elijah Burress | WR | 51 | #920 | 1 | 3 rec · 33 yds |
| Noah Grubbs | QB | 51 | #323 | 1 | 78 pass yds · 0 INT |
| Rodney Dunham | DL | 50 | #1634 | 2 | 4 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Jonaz Walton | RB | 50 | #668 | 1 | 48 rush yds |
| Jasper Scaife | P | 50 | #135 | 2 | 3 punts · 44.3 yd avg |
| Kedren Young | RB | 48 | #738 | 2 | 16 rush yds · 2 rec |
| Mylan Graham | WR | 48 | #1091 | 1 | 2 rec · 24 yds |
| Brauntae Johnson | DB | 47 | #1770 | 1 | 1 tkl · 1 PD |
| Matt Jeffery | WR | 46 | #1168 | 2 | 2 rec · 28 yds |
| Elijah Hughes | DL | 46 | #2029 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Keon Keeley | DL | 46 | #2028 | 1 | 3 tkl |
| Jaylen Sneed | LB | 45 | #1193 | 2 | 5 tkl |
| Teddy Rezac | LB | 45 | #1201 | 1 | 3 tkl · 0.5 TFL |
| Loghan Thomas | DL | 44 | #2223 | 2 | 3 tkl |
| Devin Fitzgerald | WR | 43 | #1294 | 1 | 1 rec · 20 yds |
| Ethan Long | DB | 43 | #2060 | 1 | 3 tkl |