The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have finalized their 2025 football schedule, the school announced Friday.
Notre Dame is scheduled to open the 2025 season on Sunday, Aug. 31 on the road against the Miami Hurricanes at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The game will be televised by ABC at 7:30pm ET.
Following their first open date of the season, the Fighting Irish open their home slate with back-to-back games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., against the Texas A&M Aggies on Sept. 13 and Purdue Boilermakers on Sept. 20.
Notre Dame returns to the road to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks on Sept. 27 before returning home to host consecutive games against the Boise State Broncos on Oct. 4, NC State Wolfpack on Oct. 11, and USC Trojans on Oct. 18. That will be followed by Notre Dame’s second and final open date of the season on Oct. 25.
Notre Dame kicks off its November slate on the road against the Boston College Eagles on the first before returning to South Bend to host the Navy Midshipmen on Nov. 8.
Two of Notre Dame’s final three contests in 2025 are on the road. The Fighting Irish will visit the Pitt Panthers on Nov. 15 and conclude the season at the Stanford Cardinal on Nov. 29, with a home tilt against the Syracuse Orange sandwiched in between on Nov. 22.
Last season, head coach Marcus Freeman led the Irish to three College Football Playoff wins and a National Championship Game appearance. Freeman currently has a 33-10 overall record at the school.
2025 Notre Dame Football Schedule
- 08/31 – at Miami (FL)
- 09/06 – OFF
- 09/13 – Texas A&M
- 09/20 – Purdue
- 09/27 – at Arkansas
- 10/04 – Boise State
- 10/11 – NC State
- 10/18 – USC
- 10/25 – OFF
- 11/01 – at Boston College
- 11/08 – Navy
- 11/15 – at Pitt
- 11/22 – Syracuse
- 11/29 – at Stanford
Kickoff times and television coverage for Notre Dame’s home football games will be announced this spring. All Notre Dame home games are broadcast by NBC, with one game per season streaming exclusively via Peacock.
In a couple of months, will Notre Dame insist the BC game be moved to Foxborough? (more seats)
BC hasn’t played a game in Foxborough in nearly 40 years. ND will play them in Alumni just as they have on several occasions previously.
Notre Dame is playing in Foxboro in ‘26 against Navy. First ND game there in 51 years.
This is a BC home game. If it were to be moved, which seems extraordinarily unlikely unless some strange problem arises with BC’s stadium, we can be confident that BC will have found the move sufficiently financially compelling to agree to it.
BC-ND hasn’t played in Foxborough since 1975. They did play at Fenway back in 2015, but as Jesper noted this would likely need to be financially driven to play at a neutral site, likely as a “Shamrock series” matchup instead of a contracted ACC scheduling arrangement.
Gilette Stadium would make a fantastic neutral site for Notre Dame-Boston College & Gilette Stadium would be more convenient for Notre Dame Fans.
Great to see that ND is not playing a MAC or FCS school. If they are going to remain independent, and have annual games with Navy and Stanford in additional to several other ACC games, it would behoove them to keep the MAC off the schedule and play only top Power Conference opponents to fill out the rest.
Only 10 P5 opponents. More evidence that ND could never compete against the gauntlet of a typical SEC schedule.
Oh, wait a minute, the SEC was 8-17 in the season just concluded against the slate ND posted a 14-2 record against.
Didn’t work out too well for them this season did it?
Gerry I have zero issues plus I like Notre Dame to play a MAC or FCS school & speaking of FCS I would really like to see Notre Dame host Villanova in future & same thing for Bowling Green in MAC.
That’s what we need… more games that aren’t competitive. *rolls eyes*
Notre Dame is better off not playing MAC teams.
Cupcakes are important for teams like Michigan, Georgia, Oklahoma State & Syracuse which guarantee a home game or two now with increase travel these days.
Despite more traveling i still remain a Fan of Conference games in CFB.
This schedule seems to be about the same strength wise as last year, but I like it a lot more because I love to see Notre Dame renew rivalries with Boston College, Pitt, and Miami.
Fan of Holy War Notre Dame-Boston college.