Now that Notre Dame has been consistently recruiting classes of 20+ members while simultaneously not having to rely on freshmen much, the 85 scholarship limit is a topic every year. At one point this off-season it looked like Notre Dame was over 90 scholarships. Not surprisingly, that number has come down and the scholarship math is working itself out again.
As of this writing, it looks like Notre Dame is theoretically at 86 scholarships if you include incoming freshmen JD Bertrand and Marist Liufau in the numbers. More on these two later. Bottom line though is that Notre Dame will most likely be under the 85 limit again this year even though it looked like they were over 90 just a couple months ago.