A new season of Notre Dame football on NBC begins under the lights at Notre Dame Stadium – Saturday night at 7:30 pm ET as the eighth-ranked Fighting Irish (0-1) hosts the No. 16 Texas A&M Aggies (2-0).
NBC Sports returns for the 35th consecutive season as the exclusive home for every regular season Notre Dame football home game. Sporting News provides some fun facts about the history of Notre Dame football on NBC.
- The original Notre Dame on NBC announce team in 1991 1991 – featured Dick Enberg on play-by-play, Bill Walsh as analyst and John Dockery reporting from the sidelines.
- The primary announce team for Notre Dame regular season home games consists of Dan Hicks (play-by-play), Jason Garrett (analyst) and Zora Stephenson (sidelines). The primary Big Ten Saturday Night on NBC team of Noah Eagle (play-by-play), Todd Blackledge (analyst) and Kathryn Tappen (sidelines) also call select Irish home games this season.
- Legendary play-by-play voices – such as Dick Enberg, Charlie Jones, Jim Lampley, Tom Hammond, Mike Tirico and Dan Hicks have called games for NBC at Notre Dame Stadium.
- Notable analysts who have called Notre Dame home games on NBC – include current Sunday Night Football analyst Cris Collinsworth, Doug Flutie, Todd Christensen, Randy Cross, Pat Haden and Mike Mayock.
- The most watched game in Notre Dame on NBC history was the "Game of the Century" as the No. 2 Irish held off the top-ranked Florida State Seminoles, 31-24 on Nov. 13, 1993. The game delivered an audience of 22.02 million viewers.
- In the first 34 seasons, Notre Dame has hosted rivals USC and Navy (17 times each), Stanford (15), Boston College (14) and Purdue (13) on NBC.