Notre Dame vs. Texas
Notre Dame and Texas have 12 meetings on file, the first in 1913; Notre Dame leads the series 9–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Notre Dame 7–3. Share
2028 at Notre Dame Sept. 9; 2029 at Texas Sept. 22. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Notre Dame wins
- 9
- Texas wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1913
- Longest streak
- 5 Notre Dame
- Current streak
- 1 Texas
- Last 10 meetings
- Notre Dame 7–3
- Most recent
- 2016
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 1–1 |
- Both ranked
- 7 meetings: Notre Dame 6, Texas 1; 5 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 16.6 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Notre Dame
- 3–1 Notre Dame’s record at home
- At Texas
- 1–4 Texas’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 2–1 Notre Dame first
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Notre Dame’s biggest win2015: Notre Dame 38, Texas 3by 35 points
- Texas’s biggest win1969: Texas 21, Notre Dame 17by 4 points
- Upset1952: Notre Dame 14, Texas 3Notre Dame had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1977: Notre Dame 38, Texas 10No. 1 Texas at No. 5 Notre Dame
- Ranked showdown1954: Notre Dame 21, Texas 0No. 4 Texas at No. 2 Notre Dame
- Ranked showdown1970: Notre Dame 24, Texas 11No. 1 Texas at No. 6 Notre Dame
- Ranked showdown1969: Texas 21, Notre Dame 17No. 9 Notre Dame at No. 1 Texas
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Bob Golic | 1977 |
| Vagas Ferguson | 1977 |
| Steve Worster Texas | 1970 |
| Bob Olson Notre Dame | 1970 |
| Steve Worster Texas | 1969 |
| Bob Olson Notre Dame | 1969 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1913 · South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., Nov 28, 1913
1915 · Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, Nov 28, 1915
1934 · The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, Oct 6, 1934
1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 26, 1954
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 4, 2016 | Texas 50, 10Notre Dame 47 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 5, 2015 | 11Notre Dame 38, Texas 3 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Sep 21, 1996 | 9Notre Dame 27, 6Texas 24 | at Texas | ||
| Sep 23, 1995 | 21Notre Dame 55, 13Texas 27 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Jan 2, 1978 | 5Notre Dame 38, 1Texas 10 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1971 | 6Notre Dame 24, 1Texas 11 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Jan 1, 1970 | 1Texas 21, 9Notre Dame 17 | Neutral site | Cotton Bowl | |
| Sep 25, 1954 | 2Notre Dame 21, 4Texas 0 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Oct 4, 1952 | 19Notre Dame 14, 5Texas 3 | at Texas | ||
| Oct 6, 1934 | Texas 7, Notre Dame 6 | at Notre Dame | ||
| Nov 25, 1915 | Notre Dame 36, Texas 7 | at Texas | ||
| Nov 27, 1913 | Notre Dame 30, Texas 7 | at Texas |
Every game is listed as played on the field.