#7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	258	4,355	832	5.2	2,299	561	4.1	2,056	271	7.6
Team Rank		43rd	21st	37th	22nd	51st	70th	43rd	21st	38th	22nd
Opponent	11	163	3,572		4.4	1,537	490	3.1	2,035	317	6.4
Opponent Rank		31st	61st		54th	22nd	20th	27th	132nd	133rd	65th
Net		+95	+783	+832	+0.8	+762	+71	+1.0	+21	-46	+1.2
Net Rank		32nd	38th	37th	33rd	32nd	39th	30th	65th	97th	33rd

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Joe Montana J. Montana	11	141	260	54.2	23.6	2,010	7.7	182.7	10	9	124.9	3.8	3.5
Tim Koegel T. Koegel	4	4	8	50.0	2.0	50	6.3	12.5	0	0	102.5	0.0	0.0
Greg Knafelc G. Knafelc	9	1	2	50.0	0.2	-4	-2.0	-0.4	0	0	33.2	0.0	0.0
Joe Restic J. Restic	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Vagas Ferguson V. Ferguson	11	211	19.2	1,192	5.6	108.4	7	231	1,363
Jerome Heavens J. Heavens	10	178	17.8	728	4.1	72.8	4	191	841
Joe Montana J. Montana	11	72	6.5	104	1.4	9.5	6
Jim Stone J. Stone	11	28	2.5	109	3.9	9.9	1	36	178
Pete Buchanan P. Buchanan	11	22	2.0	67	3.0	6.1	2	25	85
Pete Pallas P. Pallas	10	16	1.6	82	5.1	8.2	0	20	146
Dave Mitchell D. Mitchell	8	12	1.5	38	3.2	4.8	0	13	49
Mike Courey M. Courey	5	4	0.8	-10	-2.5	-2.0	0
Tim Koegel T. Koegel	4	4	1.0	-19	-4.8	-4.8	0
Ty Barber T. Barber	8	3	0.4	6	2.0	0.8	0	4	2
Tony Belden T. Belden	11	3	0.3	5	1.7	0.5	0
Greg Knafelc G. Knafelc	9	3	0.3	2	0.7	0.2	0
Dean Masztak D. Masztak	11	2	0.2	3	1.5	0.3	0	15	239
Pete Holohan P. Holohan	10	2	0.2	-12	-6.0	-1.2	0	22	289
Mike Boushka M. Boushka	3	1	0.3	4	4.0	1.3	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Kris Haines K. Haines	11	32	2.9	699	21.8	63.5	5
Pete Holohan P. Holohan	10	20	2.0	301	15.1	30.1	1	22	289
Vagas Ferguson V. Ferguson	11	20	1.8	171	8.6	15.5	1	231	1,363
Dennis Grindinger D. Grindinger	11	16	1.5	177	11.1	16.1	2
Dean Masztak D. Masztak	11	13	1.2	236	18.2	21.5	0	15	239
Jerome Heavens J. Heavens	10	13	1.3	113	8.7	11.3	0	191	841
Jim Stone J. Stone	11	8	0.7	69	8.6	6.3	0	36	178
Dave Condeni D. Condeni	9	7	0.8	87	12.4	9.7	0
Kevin Hart K. Hart	11	5	0.5	60	12.0	5.5	0
Pete Pallas P. Pallas	10	4	0.4	64	16.0	6.4	1	20	146
Pete Buchanan P. Buchanan	11	3	0.3	18	6.0	1.6	0	25	85
Nick Vehr N. Vehr	9	2	0.2	38	19.0	4.2	0
Lou Pagley L. Pagley	4	1	0.3	16	16.0	4.0	0
Dave Mitchell D. Mitchell	8	1	0.1	11	11.0	1.4	0	13	49
Ty Barber T. Barber	8	1	0.1	-4	-4.0	-0.5	0	4	2

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG	TD
Joe Restic J. Restic	11	3	59	19.7	1
Tom Gibbons T. Gibbons	11	3	48	16	0
Dave Waymer D. Waymer	11	3	10	3.3	0
Jim Browner J. Browner	11	2	64	32	1
Bob Golic B. Golic	11	2	3	1.5	0
Randy Harrison R. Harrison	11	1	34	34	0
Pete Johnson P. Johnson	11	1	0	0	0
Steve Heimkreiter S. Heimkreiter	11	1	-2	-2	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Joe Montana J. Montana	11	6		16			96
Vagas Ferguson V. Ferguson	11	7	1	8			48
Chuck Male C. Male	10				9	14	41
Kris Haines K. Haines	11		5	5			30
Jerome Heavens J. Heavens	10	4	0	4			24
Joe Unis J. Unis	8				3	12	21
Pete Buchanan P. Buchanan	11	2	0	2			12
Dennis Grindinger D. Grindinger	11		2	2			12
Jim Browner J. Browner	11			1			6
Pete Holohan P. Holohan	10	0	1	1			6
Pete Pallas P. Pallas	10	0	1	1			6
Joe Restic J. Restic	11			1			6
Jim Stone J. Stone	11	1	0	1			6

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Dave Waymer D. Waymer	11	2	25	12.5	0	25	175	7.0	0
Jim Stone J. Stone	11	13	242	18.6	0
Randy Harrison R. Harrison	11	5	79	15.8	0	7	4	0.6	0
Tony Belden T. Belden	11	3	37	12.3	0
Tom Gibbons T. Gibbons	11					3	18	6.0	0
Dave Mitchell D. Mitchell	8	2	42	21.0	0
Pete Pallas P. Pallas	10	2	23	11.5	0
Ty Barber T. Barber	8	1	23	23.0	0
Dean Masztak D. Masztak	11	1	0	0.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Chuck Male C. Male	10	9	12	75.0						14	14	100.0	41
	Joe Unis J. Unis	8	3	8	37.5						12	12	100.0	21

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Joe Restic J. Restic	11	61	2,330	38.2

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

3,239

Mestemaker

3,169

Atkinson

3,150

Fifita

Rush Yards Leaders

1,335

Flora

1,320

Sheppard

1,291

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

1,349

Legree

1,317

Smith

1,045

Hatcher

Pass TD Leaders

30

Mestemaker

29

Mensah

29

Veltkamp

Rush TD Leaders

20

Hawkins

19

Sheppard

18

Gutierrez

Rec TD Leaders

15

Legree

15

Smith

13

Toney

QB Rating Leaders

186.8

Mensah

184.5

Sayin

179.8

Stockton

Sack Leaders

14.0

Bradley

11.5

Dean

11.0

Zock

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

44.1

43.9

42.2

41.8

39.7

Opp PPG Rankings

11.7

11.9

12.0

12.5

13.8

14.1

Total Yards Rankings

526.7

520.7

520.1

518.1

512.3

499.2

Rush Yards Rankings

344.0

324.7

298.1

265.6

258.7

240.7

Pass Yards Rankings

373.0

334.9

331.0

328.9

326.2

320.8

Sack Leaders

40.0

39.0

38.0

37.0

32.0

31.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	9	1	.900
2	San Diego State	5	5	.500
3	Texas State	6	4	.600
4	Oregon State	5	5	.500
5	Utah State	4	6	.400
6	Fresno State	5	5	.500
7	Washington State	2	8	.200
8	Colorado State	3	7	.300

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	10	0	1.000
2	Indiana	9	1	.900
3	Oregon	7	3	.700
4	Ohio State	7	3	.700
5	Iowa	8	2	.800
6	Wisconsin	6	4	.600
7	USC	7	3	.700
8	Illinois	6	4	.600
9	Penn State	6	4	.600
10	Minnesota	5	5	.500
11	Northwestern	6	4	.600
12	Washington	6	4	.600
13	Nebraska	6	4	.600
14	Maryland	4	6	.400
15	Michigan	5	5	.500
16	Purdue	3	7	.300
17	Michigan State	3	7	.300
18	Rutgers	2	8	.200

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Georgia	9	1	.900
2	Alabama	8	2	.800
3	Texas	8	2	.800
4	Tennessee	8	2	.800
5	Kentucky	7	3	.700
6	Ole Miss	6	3	.667
7	South Carolina	6	4	.600
8	Oklahoma	5	4	.556
9	Florida	6	4	.600
10	Auburn	6	4	.600
11	LSU	6	4	.600
12	Missouri	6	4	.600
13	Arkansas	4	6	.400
14	Mississippi State	4	6	.400
15	Texas A&M	4	6	.400
16	Vanderbilt	4	6	.400

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Liberty	9	1	.900
2	Jacksonville State	7	3	.700
3	Kennesaw State	4	6	.400
4	Middle Tennessee	5	5	.500
5	Delaware	5	5	.500
6	Western Kentucky	4	6	.400
7	Missouri State	4	6	.400
8	Florida International	4	6	.400
9	New Mexico State	3	7	.300
10	Sam Houston	1	9	.100

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	Louisiana Tech	8	2	.800
2	Georgia Southern	6	4	.600
3	Louisiana	7	3	.700
4	James Madison	8	3	.727
5	South Alabama	5	5	.500
6	Appalachian State	6	4	.600
7	Louisiana-Monroe	2	8	.200
8	Coastal Carolina	4	6	.400
9	Arkansas State	4	6	.400
10	Georgia State	5	5	.500
11	Troy	4	6	.400
12	Marshall	5	5	.500
13	Southern Miss	3	7	.300
14	Old Dominion	3	7	.300

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	9	1	.900
2	Wake Forest	9	1	.900
3	Louisville	7	3	.700
4	SMU	7	3	.700
5	Duke	7	3	.700
6	Clemson	6	4	.600
7	Florida State	5	5	.500
8	Pittsburgh	6	4	.600
9	Stanford	5	5	.500
10	Virginia Tech	6	4	.600
11	Virginia	5	5	.500
12	Syracuse	5	5	.500
13	North Carolina	5	5	.500
14	Boston College	4	6	.400
15	NC State	4	6	.400
16	California	3	7	.300
17	Georgia Tech	3	7	.300

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	9	1	.900
2	UConn	5	5	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	UTSA	8	2	.800
2	Memphis	8	2	.800
3	North Texas	7	3	.700
4	UAB	6	4	.600
5	East Carolina	6	4	.600
6	Army	5	4	.556
7	Tulsa	6	4	.600
8	Florida Atlantic	6	4	.600
9	Tulane	5	5	.500
10	South Florida	6	4	.600
11	Navy	3	6	.333
12	Charlotte	1	9	.100
13	Temple	2	8	.200
14	Rice	1	9	.100

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	Toledo	8	2	.800
2	Western Michigan	7	3	.700
3	Buffalo	7	3	.700
4	Ohio	7	3	.700
5	Miami (OH)	6	4	.600
6	Central Michigan	5	5	.500
7	Eastern Michigan	4	6	.400
8	Bowling Green	3	7	.300
9	UMass	5	5	.500
10	Kent State	3	7	.300
11	Ball State	3	7	.300
12	Sacramento State	2	9	.182
13	Akron	1	9	.100

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Utah	10	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	9	1	.900
3	BYU	8	2	.800
4	Houston	7	3	.700
5	Baylor	6	4	.600
6	Arizona	7	3	.700
7	Arizona State	6	4	.600
8	Oklahoma State	6	4	.600
9	UCF	5	5	.500
10	Iowa State	5	5	.500
11	TCU	5	5	.500
12	Kansas	4	6	.400
13	West Virginia	5	5	.500
14	Cincinnati	5	5	.500
15	Colorado	4	6	.400
16	Kansas State	4	6	.400

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	Wyoming	7	3	.700
2	New Mexico	8	2	.800
3	North Dakota State	8	2	.800
4	Air Force	8	2	.800
5	UNLV	6	4	.600
6	Nevada	4	6	.400
7	San Jose State	5	6	.455
8	Hawai'i	3	7	.300
9	UTEP	1	9	.100
10	Northern Illinois	0	10	.000