Among non-SEC schools, Notre Dame football trailed only Ohio State (No. 3), Oregon (No. 5) and Michigan (No. 6) in the 2025 signing class rankings.

Thanks to Easter being late, Notre Dame's annual Blue-Gold Spring Football Game will take place a week early this year.

With an offer from the Cleveland Browns to become its next TE coach, Mike Brown will instead return to Notre Dame to stay as its wide receivers coach.

Much of the luster of the first Wednesday in February has been lost with the addition of the early signing period in December, as the Irish signed 24 commits while also taking 8 transfers. With some much player movement already, and not many 2025 uncommitted recruits being linked to Notre Dame, we shouldn’t expect much from this signing period.

Notre Dame is fresh off an impressive run to the College Football Playoff National Championship, taking full advantage of the first year of the 12-team format while marching to Atlanta as the No. 7 seed.

Coming off a 14-2 season and a runner-up CFP finish, Notre Dame football will hold its first true offseason quarterback competition since 2022.

Andy Staples of On3 believes that Notre Dame football will make the CFP Championship game again in 2025, but with the same result as in 2024.