Notre Dame football will open the 2026 season with a fresh look, as the program unveiled the uniforms for its 13th edition of the Shamrock Series.

The Fighting Irish will debut the uniforms in their season-opening matchup against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field while looking to continue their undefeated series record (12-0).

The uniform draws on history for its inspiration, with deep blue colors honoring the 1920s Acme Packers and striping details nodding to the design of today’s Green Bay Packers uniforms.

Eleven shamrocks line the back collar of the jersey, representing Notre Dame’s 11 consensus national championships.

The uniform numbers are inspired by the Paul Hornung era, honoring the Heisman Trophy winner who became a Packers icon and member of Green Bay’s first Super Bowl-winning team in 1967.

An American flag patch sits just above the heart, honoring the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Players also will wear custom cleats designed specifically for the matchup.

This marks the first Shamrock Series game since 2024. The series has been played 12 other times since 2009, with no games held from 2017-19, in 2021 or in 2023.

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The series serves as a Notre Dame home game on the road and has previously been played at notable venues including the Alamodome, Yankee Stadium, Soldier Field and Fenway Park.

This season's neutral-site matchup will be the series’ first at Lambeau Field.

It also marks only the third college football game ever held at the historic venue, following St. Norbert vs. Fordham in 1983 and Wisconsin vs. LSU in 2016.

Lambeau Field was named after Curly Lambeau, a former Notre Dame player who founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919.

Notre Dame leads the all-time series against Wisconsin 9-2-6.

The teams last met in 2021, when the Irish beat the Badgers 41-13 at Soldier Field in the 10th edition of the Shamrock Series.

The game will kick off Sunday, Sept. 6 at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

FRISCO, Texas — Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said it has been business as usual in the football operation through the turmoil surrounding the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga.

The 54-year-old Texas native credited the school’s leadership and boosters when asked at Big 12 media days how he has managed an offseason he couldn’t have imagined in his younger coaching days.

“We’ve all been in this together,” McGuire said. “I have good mentors, and I have a very strong football team. If you would walk into that building from right now, or even January, any point of this saga, the football side of it, you wouldn’t think that anything was wrong, different.”

McGuire again defended the school’s support of Sorsby, including the plan to let him play even after the Cincinnati transfer admitted he placed bets on Indiana games when he was a freshman with the Hoosiers.

Sorsby played the past two seasons with the Bearcats before joining the defending Big 12 champion Red Raiders on a lucrative deal for his name, image and likeness.

The QB ultimately abandoned a legal effort to regain his eligibility after the NCAA suspended him for gambling, and has said he will wait until next year to enter the NFL draft.

Texas Tech, which went 12-2 last season, stood behind Sorsby when he went to rehab over his gambling and after he sued the NCAA to regain his eligibility.

“I’m not going to ever change that I’m going have my players’ backs,” McGuire said. “It’s really easy to tell a mom or a dad that you’re going to be there to help their son grow into the man they’re supposed to be, and then all of a sudden, whenever adversity hits, or something like the situation we had, that you turn your back on them.”

McGuire said he talked to Sorsby over the past couple of days, and Sorsby is working out in the Dallas area, where he played in high school. McGuire said he expects Sorsby to make occasional trips to Lubbock and that he will have access to the school’s athletic facilities.

“My biggest thing why I want to be there is because I have addicts in my family,” the coach said. “Some of them are no longer with us. But the biggest thing for me right now is he continues to get help so there’s no relapse and he can be the person and the player that he’s meant to be.”

Tight end Terrance Carter Jr. said he stayed in touch with Sorsby through the offseason after their relationship blossomed in just a few months together.

“When we found out he was going into rehab, I sent him a quick text, ‘I love you, bro,’” Carter said. “We still text a lot to this day. So I can say our relationship is strong. It’s more than just football for me. So just being there for my brother, that’s all I can do.”

Hammond could end up as Red Raiders’ starting QB

Quarterback Will Hammond started twice and came off the bench once for an injured Behren Morton before tearing the ACL in his right knee last season.

McGuire said Hammond could be ready for the season opener Sept. 5 against Abilene Christian, but it’s possible the Red Raiders could wait until the third game Sept. 18 against Houston.

Without the knee injury, Hammond might have been the projected starter this season, and Carter said he was confident in the quarterbacks regardless of Sorsby’s status.

That’s not to say Sorsby’s former teammates were indifferent toward his fate.

“Coach McGuire always preaches about the ‘what’s next’ mentality,” center and captain Sheridan Wilson said. “This is just, unfortunately, just another ‘what’s next’ moment. It breaks my heart, obviously. It breaks a lot of people’s hearts because that’s a friend of ours. We’d love to have him on the team, but at the end of the day, we’re still chasing the Big 12 championship. We have to move on.”

While Texas Tech officials widely were criticized over the possibility of Sorsby playing for the Red Raiders after admitting to gambling on his team’s games at Indiana, McGuire said fellow coaches were supportive behind the scenes.

Some of the criticism came after Texas Tech posted a video in which president Lawrence Schovanec, athletic director Kirby Hocutt and McGuire tried to explain their reasons for supporting Sorsby.

“Some of the statements we made, we were making them to Red Raiders,” McGuire said. “I was not going to change the public opinion across the board. What we were trying to explain in any video or anything like that was to get our fan base and our boosters and our alumni to understand exactly what we were trying to do. We owed it to them. And really that’s the only people that we owed it to.”