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Wait – Notre Dame football is playing at Yankee Stadium in 2024?

Notre Dame headed back to the Bronx?

Sunday afternoon it was announced that Notre Dame will play in the Sun Bowl against Oregon State.  It’s the second trip to El Paso all-time for the Fighting Irish and it’ll be the third time they’ve ever taken on the Beavers.

The way Notre Dame wound up in the Sun Bowl is certainly interesting and worth sharing more.  However, there is also somewhat seemingly bigger news out of this that was also revealed Sunday.

It would appear that Notre Dame will be playing at Yankee Stadium towards the start of the 2024 season.

Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas was doing an interview with Colin Deaver of KTSM-TV on Sunday, discussing how Notre Dame wound up in El Paso.  He also revealed the Yankee Stadium news.  Check it out below:

Now who is Notre Dame playing in the Bronx and when is that game taking place are the questions?

Notre Dame is set to open the season on Aug. 30 at Texas A&M before opening the home slate on Sept. 7 vs. Northern Illinois.

Oct. 5, Nov. 2, and Nov. 23 are currently Saturdays that remain open on Notre Dame’s 2024 schedule.  Stay tuned as this develops.

Related: Notre Dame’s entire 2024 schedule

Notre Dame football: 10 future Shamrock Series suggestions

Where does Notre Dame need to take this game in the future?

I just got done watching the Cubs obliterate the lowly Cardinals in London  this blistering hot Saturday afternoon and it got me thinking about netural site games.  Of course in doing so I applied it to Notre Dame football and started thinking about possible locations for future [autotag]Shamrock Series[/autotag] games.

Not that my opinion matters, but I’ve always thought college football was best when played on an actual college campus.  That said, I’m aware of my surroundings and that neutral site games will likely only grow in the future compared to on-campus, non-conference showdowns.

But let’s cut to the chase and get to the list.  Here are 10 venues for future Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua to consider as potential Shamrock Series venues.

Notre Dame’s 2015 Fenway Park game vs. Boston College

It wasn’t the prettiest of games but the event was incredible!

With news out that Notre Dame baseball is headed to play at Fenway Park in Boston in the spring of 2023, we thought it’d be a good time to take a quick trip down memory lane and look back at the football team’s trip to Fenway in 2015.

It wasn’t the prettiest of games for the Irish, who were very much alive in the College Football Playoff chase at the time.  Boston College was in the midst of a brutal season, but five Notre Dame turnovers kept things far closer than most expected going in.

Despite getting off to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, the Irish had to struggle their way to hold onto a 19-16 victory in improving to 10-1 while Boston College fell to 3-8.

[autotag]Deshone Kizer[/autotag] threw for 328 yards and two touchdowns put also was intercepted three times that night.  The Irish averaged just 3.7 yards per carry on the night, as [autotag]C.J. Prosise[/autotag] led the way with 57 of the team’s 123 rushing yards.

Despite the ugly performance, Notre Dame escaped with a win and it was certainly a memorable night for all who experienced it.  Here is a look back at the best photos from that night at Fenway Park.

 

Photos from Notre Dame’s Shamrock Series win over BYU

Here are some images you might have missed in this year’s Shamrock Series game.

Notre Dame defeated BYU, 28-20, in its annual Shamrock Series game. It might not have been the prettiest win, but nobody’s counting that. All we know is the Irish are above .500 for the first time this season, and that’s a great first step towards getting into a quality bowl game. Yes, it stinks that we’ve had to temper our expectations for this season, but that’s how it goes in college football.

The nice thing about this game is that it set the Allegiant Stadium attendance record for a college game (62,742), which previously was held by last year’s Pac-12 title game. It qualified as a sellout, so if you weren’t there, you only could imagine what it was like to be there in Las Vegas. We can’t replicate the atmosphere exactly, but we can give you some images to illustrate what people at the game saw. Here they are, and we know you enjoyed the outcome:

How Twitter reacted to Notre Dame-BYU: Cougars side

Some folks aren’t happy with this outcome (big shock).

BYU entered its contest against Notre Dame as a ranked team. However, it didn’t enter with the best momentum after it had trouble beating a struggling Utah State the week before. Fans took notice of that and wondered if it was an omen for when the Cougars played the Irish. It turned that were kind of right as the Cougars lost, 28-20.

Cougars fans shouldn’t feel too bad as the Irish have yet to lose a Shamrock Series game, and their team just happened to be the opponent this year. Still, that fact has to be of little consolation for them. This has been one of the best programs in the country to this point, and it’s worth wondering how much longer they’ll be ranked, if at all. In any case, Cougars fans took to Twitter to vent their frustrations, and it probably hurts even more given how close their team was to completing a comeback:

How Twitter reacted to Notre Dame-BYU: Irish side

How do you feel after that?

Notre Dame fans surely will tell you that their team’s 28-20 win over BYU in the annual Shamrock Series game should have gone better. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the high standard the program historically has set, and fans are right to want the program to uphold that standard. However, they don’t give extra points or wins for style, so the Irish and their fans will have to be content with getting over .500 for the first time this season. People probably aren’t happy that that had to wait until October, but all’s well that ends well.

If you want to know how Irish fans in general feel after this game, look no further than Twitter. No matter how they expressed themselves, they all are happy just the same with a victory not everyone predicted would come. Here’s a general sense of Irish fans’ thoughts after the victory in Las Vegas:

Notre Dame No. 16 BYU: 5 Instant Takeaways

A lot to clean up but it’s a win. What are your main takeaways?

It can never be easy, can it?

Leading 25-6 in the third quarter it looked like Notre Dame was certainly headed to 3-2 with relative ease and a second half that was in complete control.

It appeared that way until it didn’t.

BYU converted their first third down of the game with 6:44 left in the third quarter and suddenly a light when on for the Cougars.  Two plays later Jaren Hall found Kody Epps for 53 yards and a touchdown and it was game on instead of game over.

Notre Dame ultimately survived with a 28-20 victory in a game that shouldn’t have been as close as the final score said, but the Irish have nobody to blame but themselves for it ending up that way, either.

Here are five instant takeaways from the thriller on the strip that simply shouldn’t have been close.

Twitter reacts to Michael Mayer’s second touchdown against BYU

Once again, this dude is good.

Clearly, breaking the Notre Dame reception record for tight ends on a go-ahead score wasn’t enough for [autotag]Michael Mayer[/autotag]. He decided he needed to make the point as to who’s the best at his position in program history again and again. [autotag]Drew Pyne[/autotag], gifted with plenty of time to observe his options thank to his offensive line, has been more than happy to help Mayer make that point. Here they are teaming up to give Mayer his second touchdown of this Shamrock Series game:

We don’t know what else Mayer will do in this game or even the rest of this season, but we know that time likely is going to be filled with plays filling up highlight reels. Everyone make sure you appreciate what Mayer has to offer because once he’s gone, you’ll be yearning for his days to come back. Fortunately, that’s in the future, which means you can tweet things like this in the present:

Twitter reacts to Notre Dame safety against BYU

You loved this, right?

If you’ve been watching the first half of Notre Dame’s Shamrock Series game against BYU, you would think the wrong team is ranked. While the Irish haven’t had a perfect game against the Cougars to this point, they’ve made one devastating play after another. Perhaps the biggest such moment came in the form of a [autotag]Jack Kiser[/autotag] safety immediately after the Irish had a turnover on downs:

The Irish came into this game with the clear advantage in time of possession, and that is playing a factor right now. The defense mostly has done a terrific job holding its own, and it’s limiting offensive opportunities for the Cougars. If the Irish win this game, you could argue that game balls should be split evenly among [autotag]Al Golden[/autotag]’s entire unit.

Here are some folks who took to Twitter to react what might be the Irish’s biggest defensive moment so far this season:

Twitter reacts to Notre Dame’s Shamrock Series uniforms

How do you like the unis?

Real Notre Dame fans have known about this year’s Shamrock Series uniforms for a while now. However, there is a difference between seeing a preview of them and actually seeing them in a game. Many college football fans probably didn’t see these uniforms before they tuned into NBC or Peacock for the game against BYU. That has to be believed after seeing these mixed reactions on Twitter: