3rd season under Head Coach Brian Kelly (formerly University of Cincinnati) the 29th head football coach at ND.
All home games are on NBC, all times are ET (South Bend Time). Tickets $73, up $3 ($83 for MI & STANFORD)

2012 Schedule
Date	Opponent	Result TV	Time	Series	Site (ND Rank #AP / #ESPN-USA Today)
Sept. 1	NAVY	50-10 CBS	9:00a	73-12-1	Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland (#24)
Sept. 8	PURDUE	20-17 NBC	3:30	56-26-2	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#22)
Sep. 15	#10 Michigan State	20-3 ABC	8:00	47-28-1	Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI (#20)
Sep. 22	#18 MICHIGAN	13-6 NBC	7:30	16-23-1	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#11)
Oct. 6	#37/#33 MIAMI	41-3 NBC	7:30	17-7-1	Soldier Field, Chicago, IL (#9)
Oct. 13	#17 STANFORD	20-13OT NBC	3:30	18-9-0	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#7)
Oct. 20	BYU	17-14 NBC	3:30	5-2-0	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#5)
Oct. 27	(#8) Oklahoma	30-13 ABC	8:00	9-1-0	Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Norman, OK (#5)
Nov. 3	PITTSBURGH	29-26 3OT NBC	3:30	47-20-1	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#4/#3 BCS)
Nov. 10	Boston College	21-6 ABC	8:00	13-9-0	Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, MA (#4)
Nov. 17	WAKE FOREST	38-0 NBC	3:30	2-0-0	NOTRE DAME STADIUM (#3)
Nov. 24	@ #30 USC	22-13 ABC	8:00	44-35-5	Memorial Coliseum, LA, CA (#1)
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Jan. 7	#2 Alabama (12-1)	14-42 ESPN	8:30	5-2	Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL (#1)
Total	12-1	335-166

Sept. 15 - ND 3-0 for 1st time since 2002. MSU had won 15 straight at home. The streak included a win over the Irish in 2010 on a fake field goal in overtime that preceded coach Mark Dantonio having a heart attack. ND is off to its best start since 2002 when Tyrone Willingham won his first 8 games.
Oct. 13 - ND offense fumbles in endzone (almost sacked) allowing only TD of game. Defense has allowed 0 TDs since 9.8 Purdue.
Nov. 3 - ND 9-0 for 1st time since 1993.
Nov 17 - #3 ND 11-0 for 1st time since 1989. #1 Kansas St & #2 Oregon both lost. ND should be #1 tomorrow.

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