Notre Dame takes on Miami on Sunday, but when the broadcast teams were announced for this weekend's games, Irish fans should already celebrate.

Notre Dame football saw many of its 2026 commitments have big opening weekends, and here are some highlights of the future Irish stars.

The 1980s gave us the rivalry's spine. Notre Dame, with its gleaming golden helmets and cathedral mystique, the standard-bearer of tradition. Miami, with its brashness, its speed, its sideline swagger, the face of college football's rebellion. The collision was never quiet-it was violence dressed in shoulder pads, culture against culture.