IU football fans looking forward to a home-and-home series with Notre Dame were dealt disappointing news on Monday afternoon.
According to multiple reports, the games originally set for 2030 and 2031 in Notre Dame and Bloomington, respectively, have been cancelled.
National reports indicate Indiana decided to cancel, but it’s worth noting Notre Dame has already replaced the 2030 meeting date with a game against USC. The Trojans insisted on early season weekends in order to renew their rivalry series with the Irish.
The games were originally contracted in 2021, when Tom Allen led IU and Brian Kelly led Notre Dame.
Since IU hired Curt Cignetti, the program has also canceled previously scheduled nonconference games against Louisville and Virginia. Cignetti’s philosophy has been to not needlessly make the schedule more challenging ahead of the nine-game Big Ten gauntlet. He did acknowledge last week he anticipates a mandated scheduling approach now that all of the other major conferences have gone to 10 Power Four games.
Although they’re both based in Indiana, the programs rarely meet on the gridiron.
Indiana and Notre Dame played in South Bend in Dec. 2024 as part of the College Football Playoff. The Irish won that game 27-17.
But the teams last met in the regular season at Notre Dame on Sept. 7, 1991, a 49-27 ND victory.
That 1991 meeting was also the end of a long drought of games between the two teams. The previous meeting came in 1958. Indiana has a 5-24-1 all-time record against Notre Dame and has lost seven straight in the series. The last Indiana win came on Oct. 21, 1950.
With this development, Indiana currently has no Power Four opponents on its future schedules.
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