#13 Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	10	225	3,329	819	4.1	2,321	613	3.8	1,008	206	4.9
Team Rank		50th	58th	28th	86th	38th	19th	51st	102nd	81st	113th
Opponent	10	86	2,069		3.5	964	383	2.5	1,105	215	5.1
Opponent Rank		51st	4th		7th	4th	1st	7th	14th	38th	17th
Net		+139	+1,260	+819	+0.6	+1,357	+230	+1.3	-97	-9	-0.2
Net Rank		19th	16th	28th	37th	16th	5th	20th	71st	65th	69th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Cliff Brown C. Brown	9	56	119	47.1	13.2	669	5.6	74.3	4	9	90.2	3.4	7.6
Pat Steenberge P. Steenberge	8	13	47	27.7	5.9	168	3.6	21.0	1	1	60.5	2.1	2.1
Bill Etter B. Etter	4	15	26	57.7	6.5	140	5.4	35.0	0	1	95.2	0.0	3.8
Jim Bulger J. Bulger	3	3	11	27.3	3.7	31	2.8	10.3	0	1	32.8	0.0	9.1
Bill Gallagher B. Gallagher	10	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ed Gulyas E. Gulyas	5	0	1	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Larry Parker L. Parker	10	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
Larry Parker L. Parker	10	80	8.0	299	3.7	29.9	2	90	408
Bob Minnix B. Minnix	9	78	8.7	337	4.3	37.4	5	83	366
Cliff Brown C. Brown	9	77	8.6	253	3.3	28.1	2
John Cieszkowski J. Cieszkowski	9	69	7.7	316	4.6	35.1	2
Andy Huff A. Huff	9	68	7.6	295	4.3	32.8	2	72	334
Ed Gulyas E. Gulyas	5	56	11.2	220	3.9	44.0	5	59	236
Bill Gallagher B. Gallagher	10	49	4.9	180	3.7	18.0	0	53	249
Darryll Dewan D. Dewan	8	35	4.4	119	3.4	14.9	2	39	161
Bill Etter B. Etter	4	35	8.8	114	3.3	28.5	0
Pat Steenberge P. Steenberge	8	23	2.9	5	0.2	0.6	0
Gary Diminick G. Diminick	8	17	2.1	61	3.6	7.6	0	19	75
Greg Hill G. Hill	8	16	2.0	84	5.3	10.5	1	17	91
Jim Bulger J. Bulger	3	4	1.3	-1	-0.3	-0.3	0
Willie Townsend W. Townsend	9	3	0.3	32	10.7	3.6	1	11	127
Tom Gatewood T. Gatewood	10	2	0.2	-7	-3.5	-0.7	0	35	410
Tim Rudnick T. Rudnick	10	1	0.1	2	2.0	0.2	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Tom Gatewood T. Gatewood	10	33	3.3	417	12.6	41.7	4	35	410
Mike Creaney M. Creaney	10	11	1.1	151	13.7	15.1	1
Larry Parker L. Parker	10	10	1.0	109	10.9	10.9	0	90	408
Willie Townsend W. Townsend	9	8	0.9	95	11.9	10.6	0	11	127
Bob Minnix B. Minnix	9	5	0.6	29	5.8	3.2	0	83	366
Bill Gallagher B. Gallagher	10	4	0.4	69	17.3	6.9	0	53	249
Darryll Dewan D. Dewan	8	4	0.5	42	10.5	5.3	0	39	161
Andy Huff A. Huff	9	4	0.4	39	9.8	4.3	0	72	334
Ed Gulyas E. Gulyas	5	3	0.6	16	5.3	3.2	0	59	236
Gary Diminick G. Diminick	8	2	0.3	14	7.0	1.8	0	19	75
Dave Casper D. Casper	10	1	0.1	12	12.0	1.2	0
Bill Trapp B. Trapp	1	1	1.0	8	8.0	8.0	0
Greg Hill G. Hill	8	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.9	0	17	91

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	PTS
Cliff Brown C. Brown	9	2		6	36
Ed Gulyas E. Gulyas	5	5	0	5	30
Bob Minnix B. Minnix	9	5	0	5	30
Tom Gatewood T. Gatewood	10	0	4	4	24
John Cieszkowski J. Cieszkowski	9	2		2	12
Darryll Dewan D. Dewan	8	2	0	2	12
Andy Huff A. Huff	9	2	0	2	12
Larry Parker L. Parker	10	2	0	2	12
Mike Creaney M. Creaney	10		1	1	6
Greg Hill G. Hill	8	1	0	1	6
Pat Steenberge P. Steenberge	8	0		1	6
Willie Townsend W. Townsend	9	1	0	1	6

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

2,977

Atkinson

2,649

Mestemaker

2,577

Jackson

Rush Yards Leaders

1,054

White

1,049

Riley

1,005

Roberts

Rec Yards Leaders

1,110

Legree

1,067

Smith

1,027

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

25

Stokes

25

Atkinson

25

Mensah

Rush TD Leaders

17

Hellums

16

Hawkins

14

Sheppard

Rec TD Leaders

14

Legree

13

Toney

13

Smith

QB Rating Leaders

202.7

Mensah

184.5

Sayin

178.5

Stokes

Sack Leaders

10.5

Simmons

10.0

Osunsanmi

9.0

Zock

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

47.6

43.8

41.1

41.0

40.4

Opp PPG Rankings

11.9

12.4

12.5

13.4

Total Yards Rankings

540.5

534.9

529.6

517.4

514.0

510.0

Rush Yards Rankings

342.5

341.0

295.8

271.4

261.6

250.8

Pass Yards Rankings

383.4

348.9

338.8

332.4

329.6

324.1

Sack Leaders

35.0

34.0

32.0

31.0

28.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	7	1	.875
2	Oregon State	5	3	.625
3	San Diego State	4	5	.444
4	Texas State	4	4	.500
5	Fresno State	5	3	.625
6	Utah State	3	5	.375
7	Colorado State	3	5	.375
8	Washington State	1	8	.111

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	8	0	1.000
2	Indiana	8	1	.889
3	Ohio State	6	2	.750
4	USC	7	2	.778
5	Illinois	5	3	.625
6	Minnesota	5	3	.625
7	Iowa	6	2	.750
8	Oregon	5	3	.625
9	Northwestern	6	2	.750
10	Wisconsin	5	3	.625
11	Washington	5	3	.625
12	Michigan	5	3	.625
13	Nebraska	5	3	.625
14	Purdue	3	5	.375
15	Penn State	4	4	.500
16	Rutgers	2	6	.250
17	Maryland	2	6	.250
18	Michigan State	2	6	.250

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Georgia	7	1	.875
2	Kentucky	7	1	.875
3	Alabama	6	2	.750
4	Ole Miss	6	2	.750
5	Texas	6	2	.750
6	LSU	6	2	.750
7	Missouri	6	2	.750
8	Tennessee	6	2	.750
9	South Carolina	5	3	.625
10	Florida	5	3	.625
11	Oklahoma	4	4	.500
12	Auburn	4	4	.500
13	Mississippi State	4	4	.500
14	Texas A&M	4	4	.500
15	Arkansas	3	5	.375
16	Vanderbilt	3	5	.375

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Liberty	7	1	.875
2	Jacksonville State	6	2	.750
3	Delaware	4	4	.500
4	New Mexico State	3	5	.375
5	Middle Tennessee	4	4	.500
6	Western Kentucky	3	5	.375
7	Missouri State	3	5	.375
8	Florida International	3	5	.375
9	Kennesaw State	2	6	.250
10	Sam Houston	1	7	.125

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	Louisiana Tech	6	2	.750
2	Appalachian State	5	3	.625
3	South Alabama	4	4	.500
4	James Madison	7	2	.778
5	Louisiana	5	3	.625
6	Georgia Southern	4	4	.500
7	Arkansas State	4	4	.500
8	Coastal Carolina	3	5	.375
9	Troy	4	4	.500
10	Georgia State	4	4	.500
11	Southern Miss	3	5	.375
12	Marshall	5	3	.625
13	Louisiana-Monroe	1	7	.125
14	Old Dominion	2	7	.222

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	8	0	1.000
2	Wake Forest	7	1	.875
3	Louisville	5	3	.625
4	SMU	6	2	.750
5	Virginia Tech	6	2	.750
6	Duke	6	2	.750
7	Clemson	5	3	.625
8	Pittsburgh	6	3	.667
9	Boston College	4	4	.500
10	NC State	4	4	.500
11	North Carolina	4	4	.500
12	Virginia	4	5	.444
13	California	3	6	.333
14	Syracuse	4	4	.500
15	Stanford	4	5	.444
16	Florida State	3	5	.375
17	Georgia Tech	2	6	.250

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	New Mexico	7	1	.875
2	Wyoming	5	3	.625
3	UNLV	5	3	.625
4	North Dakota State	7	2	.778
5	Air Force	6	2	.750
6	Nevada	3	5	.375
7	San Jose State	4	5	.444
8	Hawai'i	2	6	.250
9	UTEP	1	7	.125
10	Northern Illinois	0	8	.000

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	7	1	.875
2	UConn	4	4	.500

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	Ohio	7	2	.778
2	Toledo	7	2	.778
3	Western Michigan	6	3	.667
4	Buffalo	6	3	.667
5	Miami (OH)	5	4	.556
6	Eastern Michigan	4	6	.400
7	UMass	5	4	.556
8	Kent State	3	6	.333
9	Ball State	3	6	.333
10	Central Michigan	4	5	.444
11	Bowling Green	2	7	.222
12	Sacramento State	2	8	.200
13	Akron	1	8	.111

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	UTSA	7	1	.875
2	North Texas	6	2	.750
3	Memphis	7	2	.778
4	Army	5	3	.625
5	South Florida	6	2	.750
6	UAB	4	4	.500
7	Florida Atlantic	5	3	.625
8	East Carolina	4	4	.500
9	Tulane	4	4	.500
10	Charlotte	1	7	.125
11	Tulsa	4	4	.500
12	Temple	2	6	.250
13	Navy	2	6	.250
14	Rice	1	7	.125

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Utah	8	0	1.000
2	BYU	7	1	.875
3	Texas Tech	7	1	.875
4	Houston	6	2	.750
5	Arizona	6	2	.750
6	Baylor	5	3	.625
7	Oklahoma State	5	3	.625
8	West Virginia	5	3	.625
9	Iowa State	4	4	.500
10	UCF	4	4	.500
11	Cincinnati	5	3	.625
12	Arizona State	4	4	.500
13	TCU	4	4	.500
14	Colorado	3	5	.375
15	Kansas State	4	4	.500
16	Kansas	3	5	.375