Advertisement
football Edit

Notre Dame To Host Three Night Games In 2018

Don’t miss out on any of our exclusive football, basketball and recruiting coverage. Click here to get your 30-day free trial!

Notre Dame and Stanford will play at night a fourth straight season in 2018.
Notre Dame and Stanford will play at night a fourth straight season in 2018. (Photo by Bill Panzica)
Advertisement

From the start of Notre Dame's NBC television contract for home games in 1991 through head coach Brian Kelly’s first season in 2010, Notre Dame did not host any night games.

That ended with the 2011 USC game. By 2015, the Fighting Irish hosted two night games, and by 2016 it was up to three.

It will be three again next season with 7:30 p.m. ET starting times versus Michigan (Sept. 1), Stanford (Sept. 29) and Florida State (Nov. 10), with the latter the 25th anniversary of the No. 1-2 showdown between the Irish and Seminoles, almost to the day (Nov. 13).

The Notre Dame agreement with NBC Sports features the option of five night games over each two-year window. NBC showed two night games from Notre Dame Stadium in 2017 — Georgia and USC — so the network is allowed three prime-time contests in 2018.

Times for the other three home games also have been released: Sept 8 Ball State (3:30 p.m.), Sept. 15 Vanderbilt (2:30 p.m.) and Oct. 13 Pitt (2:30 p.m.).

Mid-American Conference foe Ball State will be making its first appearance at Notre Dame Stadium, while Vanderbilt will be coming to the venue for the second time, the previous one in 1995.

The Shamrock Series outing versus Syracuse in New York’s Yankee Stadium (Nov. 17), likewise telecast by NBC, will have a 2:30 p.m. kickoff.

The five remaining road games versus Wake Forest (Sept. 22), Virginia Tech (Oct. 6), Navy in San Diego (Oct. 27), Northwestern (Nov. 3) and USC (Nov. 24) will be determined later.

----

Talk about it inside Rockne's Roundtable

Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes

• Learn more about our print and digital publication, Blue & Gold Illustrated.

• Follow us on Twitter: @BGINews, @BGI_LouSomogyi, @BGI_CoachD, @BGI_DMcKinney and @BGI_CoreyBodden.

• Like us on Facebook

Advertisement