The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program is the college football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games on Notre Dame's campus at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as the "House that Rockne Built", which has a capacity of 80,795.

Key

# Number of coaches[1]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W–L % Win–loss percentage

Coaches

# Tenure Coach Years Record Pct. National titles (consensus & shared)[2]
0 1887–89, 92–93 None 5 7–4–1 .625
1 1894 James L. Morrison 1 3–1–1 .700
2 1895 H. G. Hadden 1 3–1–0 .750
3 1896–98 Frank E. Hering 3 12–6–1 .658
4 1899 James McWeeney 1 6–3–1 .650
5 1900–01 Pat O'Dea 2 14–4–2 .750
6 1902–03 James F. Faragher 2 14–2–2 .843
7 1904 Red Salmon 1 5–3–0 .625
8 1905 Henry J. McGlew 1 5–4–0 .556
9 1906–07 Thomas A. Barry 2 12–1–1 .893
10 1908 Victor M. Place 1 8–1–0 .889
11 1909–10 Frank Longman 2 11–1–2 .857
12 1911–12 John L. Marks 2 13–0–2 .933
13 1913–17 Jesse Harper 5 34–5–1 .863
14 1918–30 Knute Rockne 13 105–12–5 .881 1924, 1929, 1930
15 1931–33 Hunk Anderson 3 16–9–2 .630
16 1934–40 Elmer Layden 7 47–13–3 .770
17 1941–43, 46–53 Frank Leahy 11 87–11–9 .855 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949
18 1944 Edward McKeever 1 8–2–0 .800
19 1945, 63 Hugh Devore 2 9–9–1 .500
20 1954–58 Terry Brennan 5 32–18–0 .640
21 1959–62 Joe Kuharich 4 17–23–0 .425
22 1964–74 Ara Parseghian 11 95–17–4 .836 1966, 1973
23 1975–80 Dan Devine 6 53–16–1 .764 1977
24 1981–85 Gerry Faust 5 30–26–1 .535
25 1986–96 Lou Holtz 11 100–30–2 .765 1988
26 1997–2001 Bob Davie 5 35–25 .583
2001* George O'Leary 0 0–0 .000
27 2002–2004 Tyrone Willingham 3 21–15 .583
Interim 2004** Kent Baer 1 0–1 .000
28 2005–2009 Charlie Weis 5 35–27 .565
29 2010–2021 Brian Kelly 12 113***–40 .739
30 2021–present Marcus Freeman 1 19-8 .704
Totals 31 coaches 133 seasons 920–330–42 .728
* George O'Leary did not coach a single practice or game, being fired five days after being hired; he had misrepresented his academic credentials.
** Kent Baer served as interim head coach for one game at the 2004 Insight Bowl, after Tyrone Willingham was fired. *** Does not account for vacated wins.

References

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Fighting Irish.
  2. ^ "2016 Media Guide Notre Dame Football" (PDF). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
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