The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program is the college football team of the University of Notre Dame, located in South Bend, Indiana. The team competes as an Independent at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Notre Dame has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school. Additionally, seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy. Since 2015 the position has been endowed by the Corbett Family, with the full title being the Dick Corbett Head Football Coach. Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College, and one of a handful of programs independent of a football conference. The team plays its home games on Notre Dame's campus at Notre Dame Stadium, also known as the "House that Rockne Built", which has a capacity of 80,795.

Coaches # Tenure Coach Years Record Pct. National titles (consensus & shared) 0 1887–89, 92–93 None 5 7–4–1 .625 1 1894 James L. Morrison 1 3–1–1 .700 2 1895 H. G. Hadden 1 3–1–0 .750 3 1896–98 Frank E. Hering 3 12–6–1 .658 4 1899 James McWeeney 1 6–3–1 .650 5 1900–01 Pat O'Dea 2 14–4–2 .750 6 1902–03 James F. Faragher 2 14–2–2 .843 7 1904 Red Salmon 1 5–3–0 .625 8 1905 Henry J. McGlew 1 5–4–0 .556 9 1906–07 Thomas A. Barry 2 12–1–1 .893 10 1908 Victor M. Place 1 8–1–0 .889 11 1909–10 Frank Longman 2 11–1–2 .857 12 1911–12 John L. Marks 2 13–0–2 .933 13 1913–17 Jesse Harper 5 34–5–1 .863 14 1918–30 Knute Rockne 13 105–12–5 .881 1924, 1929, 1930 15 1931–33 Hunk Anderson 3 16–9–2 .630 16 1934–40 Elmer Layden 7 47–13–3 .770 17 1941–43, 46–53 Frank Leahy 11 87–11–9 .855 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949 18 1944 Edward McKeever 1 8–2–0 .800 19 1945, 63 Hugh Devore 2 9–9–1 .500 20 1954–58 Terry Brennan 5 32–18–0 .640 21 1959–62 Joe Kuharich 4 17–23–0 .425 22 1964–74 Ara Parseghian 11 95–17–4 .836 1966, 1973 23 1975–80 Dan Devine 6 53–16–1 .764 1977 24 1981–85 Gerry Faust 5 30–26–1 .535 25 1986–96 Lou Holtz 11 100–30–2 .765 1988 26 1997–2001 Bob Davie 5 35–25 .583 2001* George O'Leary 0 0–0 .000 27 2002–2004 Tyrone Willingham 3 21–15 .583 Interim 2004** Kent Baer 1 0–1 .000 28 2005–2009 Charlie Weis 5 35–27 .565 29 2010–2021 Brian Kelly 12 113***–40 30 2021–present Marcus Freeman 4 43-12 Totals 31 coaches 133 seasons 921–331–42 * George O'Leary did not coach a single practice or game, being fired five days after being hired; he had misrepresented his academic credentials. ** Kent Baer served as interim head coach for one game at the 2004 Insight Bowl, after Tyrone Willingham was fired. *** Does not account for vacated wins.

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