Notre Dame football set to lock horns with SEC power in the near future

The Notre Dame football team often gets flack for what some claim is an easy schedule. However, it’s clear that in the age of the College Football Playoffs, the Fighting Irish understand that there needs to be a few statement games on the slate every season.

This past year one statement game was Texas A&M. Florida State and USC were also supposed to fit that bill. Unfortunately, both teams have seem some variation of a very disappointing campaign in 2024.

Notre Dame football will hope that the Texas Longhorns don’t meet a similar fate when the two programs lock horns in a home-and-home series starting in the 2028 season. The two teams will face off in South Bend first and then in Austin in 2029.

Notre Dame football locking horns against the Texas Longhorns

Assuming that the two teams don’t meet one another in the playoffs before then, the 2028 matchup will be the first time in almost 15 years that they’ve seen each other.

In total, the Irish and Longhorns have only met 12 times. Notre Dame controls the series with a 9-3 record, though the Blue and Gold did lose the last time the two squads faced off in 2016. That year, UT won a shootout, 50-47.

The two programs have played against each other in three Cotton Bowls, with Texas winning the first bowl title 21-17 in 1970. In 1978, Notre Dame football’s win over the Horns vaulted them into a National Championship as they dominated the then-SWC squad 38-10.