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“Last year … Jaylon Smith and … Will Fuller … opt[ed] to skip … senior year[] and head to the NFL draft. One key player that could do that this year, is quarterback DeShone Kizer. … one of the top NFL prospects since the start of the season … Brian Kelly conceded that there is a real possibility that Saturday

“Normalcy should return to the athletic life of Notre Dame freshman Julian Love this week. But that doesn’t mean that the Fighting Irish coaches don’t have an appreciation for the young athlete’s versatility, football intellect, and willingness to do whatever it takes to help his team win. … Virginia Tech will play a traditional offense against the Irish, so that

“This will be Virginia Tech’s first football meeting against Notre Dame. The Hokies also will be the 74th different opponent that the Fighting Irish will face in Notre Dame Stadium, which opened in 1930 in what would be head coach Knute Rockne’s final season before losing his life in a plane crash. …”

“Notre Dame came two weeks later to my school, and they told me I shouldn’t come visit and they wouldn’t accept my commitment due to the uncertainty in my knee,” said Ekanem, who will lead Tech’s defense Saturday when it travels to Notre Dame (4-6) for the first meeting of the programs. “I was like, ‘Oh, really?’ They were like,

“Finishing the season with two wins and qualifying for a bowl game is important to Notre Dame junior quarterback DeShone Kizer. It would show that the program is heading in the right direction. …”

“The University of Miami finished a brutal month of October with a fourth straight loss Saturday, a 30-27 defeat at the hands of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. This classic rivalry featured a wild fourth quarter that finished with Notre Dame sacking Canes quarterback Brad Kaaya on the final play of the game. ….”

A fall from a preseason No. 10 ranking to a 2-5 start has left Notre Dame with a sour taste in its mouth, but athletic director Jack Swarbrick made it clear this week that Brian Kelly will not be coaching for his job once the Fighting Irish resume play out of this weekend’s bye. “Brian will lead this team out

Notre Dame vs. Stanford TIME, DATE AND PLACE 7:39 p.m. ET; Saturday, Oct. 15; Notre Dame Stadium (80,795); Notre Dame Ind. TELEVISION NBC national telecast with Dan Hicks (play-by-play), Doug Flutie (analysis), Kathryn Tappen (sideline), Rob Hyland (producer) and Pierre Moossa (director). RADIO IMG College Sports is the exclusive national rights-holder for Irish football radio broadcasts. Notre Dame games will

With the ACC failing to reschedule the game despite encroachment by Hurricane Matthew onto the region, Notre Dame and North Carolina State already have been battling driving rain, high winds and a sloppy natural grass field with visible standing water.  Now lightning has delayed the start of the second half by a half-hour, with Notre Dame reporting that play is

Brian Kelly and Jack Nolan talk about Notre Dame’s win over Nevada and upcoming game against Michigan State, along with other Notre Dame football news.

Notre Dame vs. Nevada in the House That Rockne Built Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 3:30 pm ET, NBC national television broadcast and Notre Dame Football Radio Notre Dame, in a rebuilding year where they lost 10 players to the NFL, comes off a bruising dogfight 2OT loss at Texas, aggravated by a short week after what was a long road

Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Texas Longhorns, 7:30 p.m. ET; Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (100,119); Austin, Texas