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Notre Dame all-time vs. Big 12 football teams

Do you wish Big 12 teams would appear on Notre Dame’s schedule more often?

For each Power Five college football conference there is, Notre Dame’s history is significantly different.  Despite not being all that far away in terms of mileage, Notre Dame hasn’t played game against the Big 12 all that often considering the Irish have been playing football for over 130 years.

They most recently did in their heartbreaking Fiesta Bowl loss to Oklahoma State that capped the 2021 season.

While we’ve seen Notre Dame struggle to under-.500 marks against some powerhouses like Ohio State, Florida State, Michigan, Georgia so far, you may be surprised to see just how well the Irish have fared against the Big 12’s football blue-bloods.

Check it all out here:

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Notre Dame all-time vs. the Big Ten

Notre Dame all-time vs. the SEC

Notre Dame baseball NCAA tournament history

Not a bad run for a school not always known for its baseball history.

Notre Dame isn’t known for being a baseball school but their success in the sport may surprise some as the Irish has qualified for the NCAA tournament 23 times after the successful 2021 season saw the Irish record the best record in the ACC and end up hosting their own tournament regional.

The Irish ultimately ended 2021 one win shy of the College World Series but here is how they have done all-time in their 23 trips to the NCAA baseball tournament:

Notre Dame-Syracuse: A football history over 100 years old

They’ve only met 10 times but their history together dates back over 100 years.

Notre Dame and Syracuse is a football series that dates back over 100 years, but also one that saw breaks in it 47 years and another 40.

Notre Dame will make just their third trip to Syracuse in program history this weekend, the first taking place all the way back in 1914.  Notre Dame won that one 20-0 as it concluded a 6-2 campaign for the team that was still not even known as the Fighting Irish at that point.

It’d be 47 more years until the teams met again, this one a much closer Notre Dame victory, 17-15 in the two’s first meeting at Notre Dame Stadium in 1961.  Two years later the Irish made the return trip to Syracuse where they lost 14-7, and that was that for this series for 40 years.

Below are the details of the most recent results between Notre Dame and Syracuse as they prep to meet for the 11th time.

College football: Notre Dame all-time versus Texas A&M

They’ve met more in the Cotton Bowl than they have all-time on an actual college campus.

Notre Dame and Texas A&M are a couple of universities that pride themselves on quality football but that doesn’t mean the two have met on the gridiron all too often.  In fact, the Irish and Aggies didn’t meet for the first time until New Year’s Day 1988 when they sparred in the Cotton Bowl.

The two would met a pair more times in the New Year’s Day bowl game until they finally had a home-and-home series against one-another starting in 2000.

So how have those handful of games between Notre Dame and Texas A&M gone all-time?

Here is a quick look back at the five football meetings Notre Dame and Texas A&M have had.