Notre Dame and Wisconsin are set to meet for the first time in nearly 60 years on Saturday in college football’s biggest game of the weekend. It’s being held under Notre Dame’s annual Shamrock Series as the two will clash at Soldier Field in Chicago.
Notre Dame and Wisconsin was supposed to resume last fall before the pandemic erased that game for Lambeau Field from the schedule. It has since been rescheduled as the 2026 opener for both squads.
Despite there being essentially no history between Notre Dame and Wisconsin in the last half-century besides Jack Coan and Barry Alvarez, there is a longtime link between the Fighting Irish and another football team from the land of cheese, the Green Bay Packers.
J. R. Radcliffe of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recently looked at some of those links. Below you can find some of the highlights: