Notre Dame opens up the highly anticipated 2015 season against Texas this Saturday with kick off set for 7PM EST. Notre Dame was ranked 11th in both the AP Top 25 and the Coaches poll.
This is a match up of two historic football programs with Notre Dame being the second most winning FBS team of all time with 882 wins, and the Longhorns right behind as the 3rd most wins with 881 wins. The Irish bring back a veteran team returning 19 of their previous 22 starters from last season.
Being the second season of the official 4 team playoff format, every game is critical for the Irish especially while being independent and not having a conference championship game to lean on at the end of the season.