Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	297	4,713	799	5.9	2,627	532	4.9	2,086	267	7.8
Team Rank		24th	10th	47th	6th	17th	35th	10th	47th	62nd	16th
Opponent	11	159	3,154		4.3	1,473	454	3.2	1,681	282	6.0
Opponent Rank		13th	13th		12th	29th	34th	31st	14th	33rd	20th
Net		+138	+1,559	+799	+1.6	+1,154	+78	+1.7	+405	-15	+1.9
Net Rank		17th	6th	47th	6th	16th	30th	9th	29th	62nd	13th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Steve Beuerlein S. Beuerlein	10	75	145	51.7	14.5	1,061	7.3	106.1	4	6	114.0	2.8	4.1
Blair Kiel B. Kiel	11	64	115	55.7	10.5	910	7.9	82.7	7	7	130.0	6.1	6.1
Kevin Smith K. Smith	10	1	2	50.0	0.2	15	7.5	1.5	0	0	113.0	0.0	0.0
Scott Grooms S. Grooms	1	0	2	0.0	2.0	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Allen Pinkett A. Pinkett	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	59	59.0	5.4	0	0	595.6	0.0	0.0
Joe Howard J. Howard	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	29	29.0	2.6	1	0	673.6	100.0	0.0
Tom Cushing T. Cushing	1	1	1	100.0	1.0	12	12.0	12.0	0	0	200.8	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Allen Pinkett A. Pinkett	11	252	22.9	1,394	5.5	126.7	16	280	1,682
Chris Smith C. Smith	11	77	7.0	421	5.5	38.3	1	90	563
Hiawatha Francisco H. Francisco	10	38	3.8	194	5.1	19.4	0	43	245
Greg Bell G. Bell	5	37	7.4	169	4.6	33.8	4	43	234
Mark Brooks M. Brooks	11	35	3.2	180	5.1	16.4	2	37	194
Steve Beuerlein S. Beuerlein	10	23	2.3	-9	-0.4	-0.9	0
Blair Kiel B. Kiel	11	19	1.7	-8	-0.4	-0.7	1
Dave Machtolf D. Machtolf	3	14	4.7	78	5.6	26.0	0	15	90
Lester Flemons L. Flemons	2	13	6.5	52	4.0	26.0	0
Byron Abraham B. Abraham	10	13	1.3	32	2.5	3.2	1	14	49
Joe Howard J. Howard	11	4	0.4	61	15.3	5.5	0	31	525
Scott Grooms S. Grooms	1	2	2.0	33	16.5	33.0	0
Ray Carter R. Carter	1	2	2.0	9	4.5	9.0	0
Alvin Miller A. Miller	11	1	0.1	19	19.0	1.7	0	3	62
Milt Jackson M. Jackson	11	1	0.1	1	1.0	0.1	0	24	439

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Allen Pinkett A. Pinkett	11	28	2.5	288	10.3	26.2	2	280	1,682
Joe Howard J. Howard	11	27	2.5	464	17.2	42.2	2	31	525
Milt Jackson M. Jackson	11	23	2.1	438	19.0	39.8	3	24	439
Mark Bavaro M. Bavaro	11	23	2.1	376	16.3	34.2	3
Chris Smith C. Smith	11	13	1.2	142	10.9	12.9	1	90	563
Mike Favorite M. Favorite	10	8	0.8	123	15.4	12.3	0
Greg Bell G. Bell	5	6	1.2	65	10.8	13.0	1	43	234
Hiawatha Francisco H. Francisco	10	5	0.5	51	10.2	5.1	0	43	245
Alonzo Jefferson A. Jefferson	11	3	0.3	47	15.7	4.3	0
Alvin Miller A. Miller	11	2	0.2	43	21.5	3.9	0	3	62
Mark Brooks M. Brooks	11	2	0.2	14	7.0	1.3	0	37	194
Byron Abraham B. Abraham	10	1	0.1	17	17.0	1.7	0	14	49
Dave Machtolf D. Machtolf	3	1	0.3	12	12.0	4.0	0	15	90
Joel Williams J. Williams	5	1	0.2	6	6.0	1.2	0

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG
Rick Naylor R. Naylor	11	3	24	8
Troy Wilson T. Wilson	11	2	43	21.5
Chris Brown C. Brown	11	2	24	12
Tony Furjanic T. Furjanic	11	2	7	3.5
Steve Lawrence S. Lawrence	11	1	43	43
Joe Johnson J. Johnson	11	1	6	6
Mike Kovaleski M. Kovaleski	11	1	5	5
Pat Ballage P. Ballage	11	1	0	0
Greg Dingens G. Dingens	11	1	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Allen Pinkett A. Pinkett	11	16	2	18			108
Mike Johnston M. Johnston	11				12	33	69
Blair Kiel B. Kiel	11	1		8			48
Greg Bell G. Bell	5	4	1	5			30
Steve Beuerlein S. Beuerlein	10	0		4			24
Mark Bavaro M. Bavaro	11		3	3			18
Joe Howard J. Howard	11	0	2	3			18
Milt Jackson M. Jackson	11	0	3	3			18
Mark Brooks M. Brooks	11	2	0	2			12
Chris Smith C. Smith	11	1	1	2			12
Byron Abraham B. Abraham	10	1	0	1			6

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Joe Howard J. Howard	11	1	7	7.0	28	202	7.2	0
Greg Bell G. Bell	5	5	108	21.6	10	55	5.5	0
Alonzo Jefferson A. Jefferson	11	10	174	17.4	1	-2	-2.0	0
Alvin Miller A. Miller	11	7	138	19.7
Milt Jackson M. Jackson	11	2	30	15.0
John Mosley J. Mosley	11	1	-3	-3.0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Mike Johnston M. Johnston	11	12	21	57.1						33	34	97.1	69

Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG
Blair Kiel B. Kiel	11	43	1,704	39.6
Mike Viracola M. Viracola	2	4	136	34.0
Dave Meadows D. Meadows	4	3	125	41.7

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

1,423

Atkinson

Rush Yards Leaders

644

Sheppard

600

Baugh

592

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

617

Smith

585

Legree

564

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

14

Taylor

14

Mensah

14

Maiava

Rush TD Leaders

11

Baugh

9

Hawkins

9

Knight

Rec TD Leaders

7

Duff

7

Dixon

7

Smith

QB Rating Leaders

228.2

Mensah

209.1

Stockton

204.6

Hoover

Sack Leaders

7.5

Simmons

7.0

Umanmielen

6.5

Hopkins

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

54.8

53.5

51.8

48.0

47.5

45.0

Opp PPG Rankings

8.0

8.3

8.5

9.0

9.8

10.3

Total Yards Rankings

588.8

550.8

548.3

533.3

532.8

523.8

Rush Yards Rankings

355.7

333.7

332.3

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

347.3

346.5

Sack Leaders

18.0

17.0

15.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Alabama	4	0	1.000
2	Florida	4	0	1.000
3	Georgia	4	0	1.000
4	Mississippi State	4	0	1.000
5	Texas	4	0	1.000
6	Ole Miss	3	1	.750
7	Auburn	3	1	.750
8	Kentucky	3	1	.750
9	LSU	3	1	.750
10	Missouri	3	1	.750
11	Tennessee	3	1	.750
12	Vanderbilt	3	1	.750
13	Arkansas	2	2	.500
14	Oklahoma	2	2	.500
15	South Carolina	2	2	.500
16	Texas A&M	2	2	.500

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	3	1	.750
2	Fresno State	3	1	.750
3	Colorado State	2	2	.500
4	Oregon State	2	2	.500
5	Texas State	2	2	.500
6	San Diego State	1	3	.250
7	Utah State	1	3	.250
8	Washington State	1	3	.250

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	4	0	1.000
2	Indiana	4	0	1.000
3	Iowa	4	0	1.000
4	Nebraska	4	0	1.000
5	Minnesota	3	1	.750
6	Ohio State	3	1	.750
7	Oregon	3	1	.750
8	Wisconsin	3	1	.750
9	USC	4	1	.800
10	Michigan	3	1	.750
11	Penn State	3	1	.750
12	Washington	3	1	.750
13	Northwestern	2	1	.667
14	Illinois	2	2	.500
15	Maryland	2	2	.500
16	Michigan State	2	2	.500
17	Purdue	1	3	.250
18	Rutgers	1	3	.250

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Cincinnati	4	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	4	0	1.000
3	Utah	4	0	1.000
4	BYU	3	0	1.000
5	Baylor	3	1	.750
6	Oklahoma State	3	1	.750
7	UCF	3	1	.750
8	Arizona State	2	1	.667
9	Arizona	3	1	.750
10	Houston	3	1	.750
11	Kansas State	3	1	.750
12	West Virginia	3	1	.750
13	Colorado	2	2	.500
14	Iowa State	2	2	.500
15	TCU	2	2	.500
16	Kansas	1	2	.333

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	UMass	4	0	1.000
2	Kent State	2	2	.500
3	Eastern Michigan	2	3	.400
4	Toledo	3	1	.750
5	Buffalo	2	2	.500
6	Central Michigan	2	2	.500
7	Miami (OH)	2	2	.500
8	Ohio	2	2	.500
9	Western Michigan	2	2	.500
10	Akron	1	3	.250
11	Bowling Green	0	4	.000
12	Ball State	1	3	.250
13	Sacramento State	1	4	.200

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	4	0	1.000
2	Clemson	3	1	.750
3	Duke	4	0	1.000
4	Pittsburgh	4	0	1.000
5	Virginia Tech	4	0	1.000
6	Virginia	3	1	.750
7	Wake Forest	3	1	.750
8	Louisville	2	2	.500
9	SMU	3	1	.750
10	California	2	2	.500
11	Stanford	2	2	.500
12	North Carolina	2	1	.667
13	Boston College	2	2	.500
14	Florida State	2	2	.500
15	NC State	2	2	.500
16	Georgia Tech	1	3	.250
17	Syracuse	1	2	.333

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	4	0	1.000
2	UConn	2	2	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	South Florida	4	0	1.000
2	Florida Atlantic	3	1	.750
3	UAB	2	2	.500
4	Army	2	1	.667
5	Memphis	3	1	.750
6	Tulsa	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	North Texas	2	2	.500
10	Tulane	2	2	.500
11	Rice	1	3	.250
12	Charlotte	0	4	.000
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
2	Liberty	3	1	.750
3	Delaware	2	2	.500
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	New Mexico State	1	3	.250
8	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
9	Western Kentucky	1	3	.250
10	Middle Tennessee	2	2	.500

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	4	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	3	1	.750
3	Appalachian State	3	1	.750
4	South Alabama	2	2	.500
5	Georgia State	3	1	.750
6	Marshall	3	1	.750
7	Arkansas State	2	2	.500
8	Troy	2	2	.500
9	Georgia Southern	1	3	.250
10	Louisiana Tech	1	2	.333
11	Southern Miss	1	3	.250
12	Coastal Carolina	1	3	.250
13	Old Dominion	1	3	.250
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	4	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	North Dakota State	4	0	1.000
2	UNLV	2	2	.500
3	Wyoming	2	2	.500
4	Air Force	2	1	.667
5	New Mexico	3	1	.750
6	San Jose State	2	2	.500
7	UTEP	1	3	.250
8	Northern Illinois	0	4	.000
9	Nevada	1	3	.250
10	Hawai'i	1	3	.250