The Notre Dame Fighting Irish’s home football game against the Boise State Broncos in 2025 will air exclusively on Peacock, NBC and Notre Dame announced Saturday.
The Notre Dame-Boise State game announcement came during the broadcast of Notre Dame’s Blue-Gold Spring Game on Peacock.
Notre Dame will host Boise State on Saturday, Oct. 4 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The game will air on Peacock and the kickoff time will be announced at a later date.
NBC and Notre Dame confirmed that the Boise State game on 10/4 will indeed be on Peacock as part of the Blue-Gold. H/T @ndbass_2001 pic.twitter.com/5Up801x094
— Matt Sarzyniak (@mattsarz) April 13, 2025
Peacock is a streaming service that is owned and operated by NBCUniversal. With the exception of the Boise State contest, all Notre Dame home football games in 2025 will be televised by NBC and streamed via Peacock.
Notre Dame opens the 2025 season on the road against the Miami Hurricanes on Sunday, Aug. 31. The game will be televised by ABC and streamed via ESPN+ at 7:30pm ET.
The first home contest for the Irish in 2025 is slated for Saturday, Sept. 13 against the Texas A&M Aggies. Other opponents slated to visit South Bend this fall include Purdue, NC State, USC, Navy and Syracuse.
In addition to Miami, Notre Dame will travel to face Arkansas, Boston College, Pitt, and Stanford.
Boise State is scheduled to kickoff its campaign on Thursday, Aug. 28 on the road against the USF Bulls.
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I am confident that it will be at 3:30PM kickoff even on streaming device.
Defensive Tackle I would like My Eagles to select in upcoming NFL Draft is Rylie Mills From Notre Dame.
This being the game where there´s exclusive coverage with limited viewership makes zero sense. This is arguably Notre Dame´s second biggest game after Miami. Syracuse or Arkansas would make much more sense.
There is a minimum of four other games bigger than the Boise State game. However, it is the most affordable (for Peacock) game.
Do you mean NC State or Navy instead as Arkansas is a road (ESPN broadcast) game. Boise is also no stranger to Peacock only broadcasts (see 2024 vs Oregon).
Besides Miami, what games are bigger than Boise State? Also, I did say arguably. Your second point makes total sense though.
Thank you for pointing out that Arkansas doesn´t work because its on the road.. NC State would definitely be better. Navy would also make much more sense but I personally wouldn´t want it to be that game because it’s a historic rivalry that I always look forward too.
Boise State is likely to be the 2nd best opponent on their home schedule. NC State, Navy, Purdue and Syracuse are leagues weaker.
The game is on Peacock due to ND’s long-standing contract with NBC to televise all home games. Therefore, Arkansas was not a possibility.
2nd year in a row Boise is given the Peacock treatment in their P4 OOC scheduling. 2024 featured the B1G Peacock exclusive against Oregon
Arkansas is a road game so that falls under the SEC TV contract. Likely on ABC or ESPN there.
Gotta luv the fact that there are no FCS games on the Irish’s schedule along with 5 true OOC road games. SEC teams should take a note of that.
SEC teams are pansies that don´t want to play losable games that could hurt their reputation.
Pardon me Klutchpike if there is an FCS opponent that I like Notre Dame Fighting Irish to play it would be Villanova Wildcats other than that I am pleased with ND schedule.
Notre Dame rarely plays FCS schools. They played Tennesse State a couple years ago, but I believe they did so as a classy move, since TSU is an HBCU. Going forward, I think they will only play FCS schools if it’s an HBCU, although I think it would be cool to see them take on NDSU or one of the Montanas, or as Dan mentioned, an old Big East rival in Villanova.
@Evan Tennese St was the first ever and only FCS opponent Notre Dame played but it actually would never have happened hadn’t it been for the 2020 pandemic canceling the ND-Navy game to be hosted in Dublin which caused a domino effect on the 2023 schedule.
A game against Villanova would make for an intriguing matchup especially as a rivalry of two catholic big east schools but until ND is forced fully into a conference schedule I doubt we’ll see any other FCS opponents scheduled.
Just want to let you know Rev. that Notre Dame to host Villanova is just a suggestion NOT demand.
God Bless & have a safe & happy Easter Reverend Winton DuPree.
I think the Peacock exclusive game is driven more by what other programming NBC has for a particular Saturday afternoon rather than the game quality, after you get past a few games that I think it’s highly unlikely they would put exclusively on Peacock (USC, A&M, Navy).
I would expect USC and A&M to be the NBC night games this year, then as I said above, I don’t think they make Navy a Peacock exclusive game given the history with the two schools. So you are left with Boise State, Purdue, NC State and Syracuse, and I suspect NBC preferred the latter three games on the broadcast network due to what else they had for each of those days.
I am a Fan of Notre Dame playing under the lights & both Texas A&M & USC would make fantastic opponents.
I would welcome NBC to have a Big Ten game at same time as CBS at 3:30M for example CBS shows Central Michigan at Michigan & NBC show USC at Purdue should Notre Dame host Texas A&M occupied NBC evening time slot.
Should Notre Dame host USC in evening for example CBS shows Washington at Michigan & Ohio State at Wisconsin will be shown exclusively on Peacock both at 3:30PM.
This is just an educated guess & suggestion NOT demand.
Just out of curiosity, will this site ever offer coverage of the Mexican Football League? The LFA, yes American football in Mexico. They play the Tazen Bowl for their championship. – For this ND game, just another game I won’t watch. Not paying Peacock for this. I have had to miss several ND games over the years because ND and NBC put them on streaming.
Makes sense, Notre Lame wouldn’t want to get embarrassed on national television.
I support Peacock doing Notre Dame home games when NBC is committed to other sports programming also I would like Peacock to stream a Big Ten game like Ohio State at Wisconsin with 3:30PM kickoff should Notre Dame/USC occupied NBC evening time slot on October 18th.
Sure, whatever you say. ND played for the national championship this year, but they are afraid of getting embarrassed on TV. Got it.
Dave – sounds like a lot of “shoulda, woulda, coulda talk.” Oh, I mean Notre Lame Tradition lol. Choking in big games for nearly 40 years!
FB1,
What it sounds like is that Notre Dame played for the national championship last year. ND won three playoff games against Indiana, Georgia and Penn St. Your flames are feeble. Good bye.
Dave,
Played all these teams, but perpetually looses when it matters the most. Looks like a 9-3 season next year. My flames are immaculate. Good day.
Notre Dame will 12-0 in the regular season.
I know not everyone has Peacock, that said I don’t know what NBC is showing yet on Oct 4th, but I would sell this game to ESPN, TNT, CBS , or some other network. I know that network would jump at the chance to show a Notre Dame home game. I know streaming games are on the rise, but still the majority of people would rather watch this or any game on a broadcast or even cable network, before a streamer.
I have zero issues with NBC televising Notre Dame Home games since it began 35 years ago.