2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

The 2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represents the University of Notre Dame in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team will be led by Brian Kelly in his eleventh season at Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish play their home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana and will compete for the first time in the Atlantic Coast Conference.[2]

2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 10
Head coachBrian Kelly (11th season)
Offensive coordinatorTommy Rees (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorClark Lea (3rd season)
Home stadiumNotre Dame Stadium
(Capacity: 80,795)[1]
2020 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Boston College  0 0     0 0  
Clemson  0 0     0 0  
Duke  0 0     0 0  
Florida State  0 0     0 0  
Georgia Tech  0 0     0 0  
Louisville  0 0     0 0  
Miami  0 0     0 0  
NC State  0 0     0 0  
North Carolina  0 0     0 0  
Notre Dame  0 0     0 0  
Pittsburgh  0 0     0 0  
Syracuse  0 0     0 0  
Virginia  0 0     0 0  
Virginia Tech  0 0     0 0  
Wake Forest  0 0     0 0  
Championship: December 12 or 19, 2020
  • $ Conference champion
As of August 17, 2020; Rankings from AP Poll.

Previous season

The 2019 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team finished 11–2 on the season with a 33–9 victory over Iowa State in the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, Florida. They finished at No. 12 in the final AP Poll of the College Football season.

Offseason

Departures

Coaching changes

Chip Long, former offensive coordinator of the Fighting Irish, is now an offensive analyst at University of Tennessee.

2020 recruiting class

Personnel

Coaching staff

Roster

Depth chart

Schedule

The 2020 schedule was officially released on December 7, 2017.[3]

Due to suspensions of athletic programs nationwide as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team called off the 2020 edition of its spring Blue-Gold Game.[4] The Emerald Isle Classic game against Navy at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland was tentatively rescheduled for Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland,[5] and three games were scrapped after the Big Ten and Pac-12 elected to restrict play to conference opponents only. This included a game scheduled against Wisconsin on October 3 (which was to be played at Lambeau Field in Green Bay as a Shamrock Series game),[6] the team's rivalry game against Stanford, and the team's rivalry game against USC (resulting in its postponement for the first time since World War II).[7][8]

In regards to replacing the cancelled games, head coach Brian Kelly told ESPN's Mike Greenberg that "our phone is ringing off the hook right now in terms of teams looking for games", and that Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick had been communicating with ACC commissioner John Swofford; as per its membership in most other sports, Notre Dame typically plays five games against ACC opponents per-season.[9] On July 29, 2020, the ACC officially announced that Notre Dame would play its 2020 season within the conference, with 10 games against ACC opponents, a non-conference game of its choice against an in-state opponent, and being eligible to compete for the conference championship. The team will contribute revenue from its broadcast rights with NBC into the conference's shared pool, split between all ACC members and Notre Dame.[10]

DateOpponentSiteTVResult
September 12DukeNBC
September 26vs. Wake Forest
October 10Florida State
  • Notre Dame Stadium
  • South Bend, IN
NBC
October 17Louisville
  • Notre Dame Stadium
  • South Bend, IN
NBC
October 24at Pittsburgh
October 31at Georgia Tech
November 7Clemson
  • Notre Dame Stadium
  • South Bend, IN
NBC
November 14at Boston College
November 27at North Carolina
December 5Syracuse
  • Notre Dame Stadium
  • South Bend, IN
NBC
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Final 
AP  
Coaches 10  
CFP Not released Not released
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References

  1. https://und.com/facilities-notre-dame-stadium-html/ (2020)
  2. "2020 Notre Dame Schedule". FBSchedules.com. January 16, 2020. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
  3. "Notre Dame Announces 2020 Football Schedule". und.com. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  4. "Notre Dame has cancelled the Blue-Gold Spring Game". IrishIllustrated.com. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  5. "Notre Dame-Navy game moved from Ireland". ESPN.com. 2 June 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
  6. "ND-Wisconsin tilts at Lambeau, Soldier fields". ESPN.com. 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  7. "What do Pac-12 and Big Ten decisions mean for college football?". ESPN.com. 2020-07-11. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  8. "Big Ten going to conference-only slate this fall". ESPN.com. 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  9. "Brian Kelly: 'there's plenty of games for us to play'". 247Sports. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
  10. "ACC sets 11-game slate, includes Notre Dame". ESPN.com. 2020-07-30. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
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