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Notre Dame Stadium

Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, IN, home of Notre Dame. Capacity 80,795. Opened October 4, 1930.

Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, INPhoto: Eccekevin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Capacity
80,795
Opened
1930
Surface
Artificial turf
Roof
Open air
Elevation
730 ft
Home team
Notre Dame
Notre Dame here
119–⁠42 games on file since 2001
College GameDay
six times

Since it opened: Notre Dame is 392–⁠120–⁠7 in home games from the 1930 season on. Our source names a game’s stadium only from 2001, so that count takes every earlier home game not marked neutral and may include a few played elsewhere.

Biggest games here

From the games on file here, 2001 on: title and postseason games, meetings of two ranked teams, upsets by our pregame Elo ratings and the biggest swings in CollegeFootballData.com’s excitement index.

Crowds season by season

Average and biggest crowd at Notre Dame Stadium by season, 2001 to 202660k80k100k2001: 80,795 a game over 5 games; biggest 80,7952002: 76,683 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,9352003: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952004: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952005: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952006: 80,795 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,7952007: 80,821 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,9752008: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952009: 80,795 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,7952010: 80,795 a game over 7 games; biggest 80,7952011: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952012: 80,825 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,9752013: 80,825 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,9752014: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952015: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952016: 80,795 a game over 6 games; biggest 80,7952017: 77,622 a game over 7 games; biggest 77,6222018: 77,622 a game over 6 games; biggest 77,6222019: 76,288 a game over 7 games; biggest 77,6222020: 9,769 a game over 6 games; biggest 11,0112021: 72,817 a game over 7 games; biggest 77,6222022: 76,193 a game over 6 games; biggest 77,6222023: 77,622 a game over 6 games; biggest 77,6222024: 77,622 a game over 7 games; biggest 77,6222025: 77,622 a game over 7 games; biggest 77,6222026: 77,622 a game over 3 games; biggest 77,622200120062011201620212026

Biggest crowds on file

80,975USC at Notre Dame2013
80,975Stanford at Notre Dame2012
80,975Duke at Notre Dame2007
80,935Boston College at Notre Dame2002
80,795Virginia Tech at Notre Dame2016

Bars are each season’s average crowd, dots its biggest (the record in orange), the dashed rule today’s capacity. Attendance is on file for most games from 2001 on.

The pregame shows here

ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from Notre Dame Stadium six times, first in 2005; Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff once.

Dec 20, 2024College GameDayNotre Dame 27, Indiana 17Library Lawn
Oct 14, 2023Big Noon KickoffNotre Dame 48, USC 20
Sep 23, 2023College GameDayOhio State 17, Notre Dame 14Library Lawn
Nov 7, 2020College GameDayNotre Dame 47, Clemson 40Notre Dame Stadium
Sep 1, 2018College GameDayNotre Dame 24, Michigan 17Library Quad
Oct 13, 2012College GameDayNotre Dame 20, Stanford 13Liberty Quad
Oct 15, 2005College GameDayUSC 34, Notre Dame 31Library Lawn

College GameDay’s sites from Wikipedia’s list of College GameDay locations (CC BY-SA). Big Noon Kickoff’s from Wikipedia’s list of its sites (CC BY-SA).

Weather on game day

Coldest kickoffs

Hottest kickoffs

Coldest game days before 2004

Hottest game days before 2004

Snow on game day

Kickoffs: the NOAA report nearest kickoff from the closest weather station (NOAA NCEI Integrated Surface Database). Game days: the day’s high and snowfall at the NOAA station nearest the stadium, for Notre Dame’s home games before 2004 (NOAA GHCN-Daily, public domain).

The stadium’s history

Opened
October 4, 1930
Architect
Osborn Engineering
Surface over the years
Artificial turf (2014–present)
Natural grass (1930–⁠2013)
Renovated
1994-1997, 2014-2017

From the stadium’s Wikipedia article, Notre Dame Stadium.

From above

50 mN ↑
The stadium’s footprint, north up: about 180 by 260 meters (600 by 840 feet), the field in green. Outline from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Recent games here

Oct 10, 20263Notre Dame 58, Stanford 7
Sep 19, 20263Notre Dame 27, Michigan State 10
Sep 12, 20263Notre Dame 52, Rice 0
Nov 22, 20259Notre Dame 70, Syracuse 7
Nov 8, 202510Notre Dame 49, Navy 10
Oct 18, 202513Notre Dame 34, 20USC 24
Oct 11, 202516Notre Dame 36, NC State 7
Oct 4, 202521Notre Dame 28, Boise State 7
Sep 20, 202524Notre Dame 56, Purdue 30
Sep 13, 202516Texas A&M 41, 8Notre Dame 40
Dec 20, 20243Notre Dame 27, 9Indiana 17
Nov 16, 20248Notre Dame 35, Virginia 14

Around the stadium

Beer sales
Sold to all fans · Official source

Found by several AI researchers searching the web, then kept only where the page loads and says so in words naming the program; every quote is checked again each time the data is rebuilt. Official source: the school’s own page. All of them.

Pouring rights

Coca-Cola has the stadium’s soft-drink pouring rights, on record since 2020. Single source.