1996_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team

1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
Conference	Independent
Ranking
Coaches	No. 21
AP	No. 19
Record	8–3
Head coach	Lou Holtz (11th season);
Offensive coordinator	Dave Roberts (3rd season)
Defensive coordinator	Bob Davie (3rd season)
Home stadium	Notre Dame Stadium (c. 59,075, grass)
	Seasons ← 1995 1997 →

1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

American college football season

The 1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season.^[1] The team was coached by Lou Holtz and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana.

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Notre Dame participated in the Emerald Isle Classic (Billed as the Shamrock Classic that year). The game was played in Dublin on November 2 at Croke Park, where Notre Dame beat Navy by a score of 54–27.

Despite finishing the regular season 8–3, Notre Dame did not play in a bowl game. The Fighting Irish turned down an invitation to play the Auburn Tigers in the Independence Bowl.

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"Notre Dame Yearly Results (1995-1999)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.

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"ND's opening victory is ugly". The Indianapolis News. September 6, 1996. Retrieved February 10, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 5	8:00 p.m.	at Vanderbilt	No. 6	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	ESPN	W 14–7	41,523	^[2]
September 14	2:30 p.m.	Purdue	No. 9	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	NBC	W 35–0	59,075
September 21	12:00 p.m.	at No. 6 Texas	No. 9	Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium Austin, TX	ABC	W 27–24	83,312
September 28	2:30 p.m.	No. 4 Ohio State	No. 5	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	NBC	L 16–29	59,075
October 12	2:30 p.m.	No. 16 Washington	No. 11	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	NBC	W 54–20	59,075
October 19	2:30 p.m.	Air Force	No. 8	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	NBC	L 17–20 ^OT	59,075
November 2	8:00 a.m.	at Navy	No. 19	Croke Park Dublin, Ireland (Emerald Isle Classic, rivalry)	CBS	W 54–27	38,651
November 9	3:30 p.m.	at Boston College	No. 17	Alumni Stadium Chestnut Hill, MA (Holy War)	CBS	W 48–21	44,500
November 16	1:30 p.m.	Pittsburgh	No. 14	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (rivalry)	NBC	W 60–6	59,075
November 23	1:30 p.m.	Rutgers	No. 10	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	NBC	W 62–0	59,075
November 30	8:00 p.m.	at USC	No. 10	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles, CA (rivalry)	ABC	L 20–27 ^OT	90,296
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

Period	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Notre Dame	0	7	7	6	0	20
USC	6	0	0	14	7	27

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1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 25 Army		–		10	–	2
Navy		–		9	–	3
No. 19 Notre Dame		–		8	–	3
East Carolina		–		8	–	3
Louisiana Tech		–		6	–	5
UAB		–		5	–	6
UCF		–		5	–	6
Southwestern Louisiana		–		5	–	6
Northeast Louisiana		–		5	–	6
Arkansas State		–		4	–	7
Northern Illinois		–		1	–	10

Rankings from AP Poll