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UPI
21-05-2025
- Sport
- UPI
Wisconsin, Notre Dame to play football on a Sunday in 2026 at Lambeau Field
Lambeau Field will host the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Wisconsin Badgers in a Shamrock Series college football clash Sept. 6, 2026, in Green Bay, Wis. File Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI | License Photo May 21 (UPI) -- Wisconsin will host Notre Dame in a Shamrock Series football meeting Sept. 6, 2026, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, the schools announced Wednesday. The matchup was previously planned for Oct. 3, 2020, but postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Sept. 6 meeting will air on NBC and Peacock and take place a week before the start of the 2025 NFL season. Wisconsin beat LSU 16-14 in 2016 in the last college football matchup to be held at Lambeau Field. The 2026 game will mark Notre Dame's first appearance at the stadium, which is named after Packers founder and former Notre Dame halfback Curly Lambeau. Notre Dame beat Wisconsin 41-13 in 2021 at Soldier Field in Chicago in the first installment of their two-game series. The Fighting Irish will take on the University of Miami Hurricanes in their 2025 season opener Aug. 31 in Miami Gardens, Fla. The Badgers will host the Miami University RedHawks on Aug. 28 in Madison.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Notre Dame football announces its plans for the 2026 Shamrock Series game
One the Notre Dame football's recent traditions has been playing in an annual Shamrock Series game which started in 2009, and on Wednesday it was announced that the 2026 edition will happen on Sep. 6th, against the Wisconsin Badgers at Lambeau Field. Initially the game was supposed to be played in 2020, but due to the shortened season, it didn't happen. This will be the second time the two teams have played in a Shamrock Series game, the first a Notre Dame 41-13 win in Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The announcement means that the Irish can now check off playing in another stadium, as this will be the first time playing in historic Lambeau Field. Advertisement According to the press release, this is only the third time a collegiate game will be played on the 'Frozen Tundra,' the first since 2016. Another interesting note they shared was the fact that the field is named after a Notre Dame player and founder of the Green Bay Packers, Curly Lambeau. The Badgers will look to rebound from a disappointing 2024, where they went 5-7 and didn't play in a bowl game. The two teams will be much different when the take on each other in 2026, but it still should be a great game played in one of the most famous NFL stadiums. This article originally appeared on Fighting Irish Wire: Notre Dame to play Wisconsin in Lambeau Field in '26's Shamrock Series
NBC Sports
21-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
NOTRE DAME TO FACE WISCONSIN AT LAMBEAU FIELD IN SHAMROCK SERIES ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame Football's 2026 Shamrock Series game presented by Credit Union 1 will now be played on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026 vs. Wisconsin at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers. The game will be broadcast on NBC and Peacock. The game was originally scheduled to be played in 2020 and was rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic for Sept. 5, 2026. It has now been scheduled for a Sunday matchup. The game is the second installment of the two-game series with Wisconsin, the first of which was played at Soldier Field in 2021, a 41-13 Notre Dame win. Notre Dame will serve as the home team in this Shamrock Series game, the first game the Irish have played at Lambeau Field. The historic stadium has hosted just two college football games in history: St. Norbert vs. Fordham in 1983 and Wisconsin vs. LSU in 2016. Lambeau Field is named for Curly Lambeau, a former Notre Dame Football player (1918) and founder of the Green Bay Packers. The Shamrock Series began in 2009 when Notre Dame started to 'take a home game on the road' in San Antonio. The Irish defeated Washington State, 40-14, in the Alamodome and have hosted 12 Shamrock Series games across the country, including Landover, Md; Chicago, Ill.; Arlington, Texas; Indianapolis, Ind., Las Vegas, Nev. and Bronx, N.Y.. Shamrock Series game weekends feature more than just the game, as the University will plan a number of educational, service and fan-centric events in the area leading up to the game. —NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL—
USA Today
21-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Notre Dame football announces its plans for the 2026 Shamrock Series game
Notre Dame football announces its plans for the 2026 Shamrock Series game One the Notre Dame football's recent traditions has been playing in an annual Shamrock Series game which started in 2009, and on Wednesday it was announced that the 2026 edition will happen on Sep. 6th, against the Wisconsin Badgers at Lambeau Field. Initially the game was supposed to be played in 2020, but due to the shortened season, it didn't happen. This will be the second time the two teams have played in a Shamrock Series game, the first a Notre Dame 41-13 win in Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The announcement means that the Irish can now check off playing in another stadium, as this will be the first time playing in historic Lambeau Field. According to the press release, this is only the third time a collegiate game will be played on the 'Frozen Tundra,' the first since 2016. Another interesting note they shared was the fact that the field is named after a Notre Dame player and founder of the Green Bay Packers, Curly Lambeau. The Badgers will look to rebound from a disappointing 2024, where they went 5-7 and didn't play in a bowl game. The two teams will be much different when the take on each other in 2026, but it still should be a great game played in one of the most famous NFL stadiums.
Fox Sports
07-02-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Vince Lombardi's Packers say don't call Chiefs' quest for three-peat a first
The story line heading into the Super Bowl revolves around the Kansas City Chiefs' quest to become the first team to win three straight Super Bowl titles. Just don't call it the NFL's first three-peat. While all eight teams that won back-to-back Super Bowls before Kansas City did it the past two seasons lost before making it back for a third, the NFL has had two runs of three straight championships — both by Green Bay. Curly Lambeau's Packers won the NFL titles from 1929-31 before there was even a postseason and Vince Lombardi's crew in the 1960s also did it. Green Bay won the NFL title in 1965 — the year before the AFL and NFL champs first played in what is now known as the Super Bowl — and then the Packers won the first two Super Bowls against the AFL champions for an NFL three-peat that the players still take pride in having achieved. "If Kansas City wins, I don't want to hear about the only three-time champions," Hall of Fame linebacker Dave Robinson said. "That's BS." Robinson's Packers won the 1965 championship with a 23-12 win over Cleveland, holding Jim Brown to just 50 yards rushing in his final NFL game. The Bills won the title in the upstart AFL that season, beating the Chargers 23-0. "There was no doubt in anybody's mind, AFL guy or NFL guy, that the Green Bay Packers were the best team in pro football at that point," Robinson said. "It wasn't close." A few months later, the league agreed to merge. They played separate regular-season schedules in 1966-69 before the merger became fully operational in 1970, but the champions of both leagues played for the ultimate prize in pro football in what later became known as the Super Bowl. The Packers easily beat the AFL's best, topping Kansas City in the first Super Bowl, 35-10, and then beating Oakland 33-14 the following year. Lombardi retired as Packers coach after that game and the dynasty ended with Green Bay missing the playoffs in 1968 and the AFL's New York Jets upsetting Baltimore in Super Bowl 3. "If he stuck around one more year, we would have won three straight Super Bowls," Robinson said. "No one thought the Super Bowl would be as big as it was because the NFL was a landslide over the AFL those years. We would have beaten the Jets. They were a fine team, but we would have beaten them." Robinson, who grew up cheering for the New York Giants, is backing the Eagles on Sunday, but more for his attachment to fellow Penn State alum Saquon Barkley than any deep-seated hatred of the Chiefs. While the Packers do feel slighted, they also respect what the Chiefs have accomplished these last few years with coach Andy Reid, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce. [Related: Hall of Fame meter: 10 Chiefs, Eagles with legacies on the line in SB LIX] "First of all, yes, it does bother me," Hall of Fame guard Jerry Kramer said in a phone interview. "I'm aware of it. I'm not crying. I'm not hysterical. I'm not having a fit. But there's a little resentment there. But when I look at the Kansas City Chiefs and I see the quality of play and I know the coach from Green Bay and I watch Mahomes and Kelce, they're doing everything well. They are a great football team. I understand that, and I appreciate that, and I know how difficult that is." Even if the Chiefs do win Sunday for their third straight championship and fourth in six years, the Packers still hold something over them. Green Bay also won NFL titles in 1961-62 and is the only team with five championships in a seven-year span. "We'll have to start talking about five out of seven," Kramer said. "They still have a little hill to climb. I've gone from three in a row to five out of seven. I hope they do it, really. My life has been complete. I've had a wonderful ride." Reporting by The Associated Press. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily! FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience National Football League Kansas City Chiefs Green Bay Packers recommended Get more from National Football League Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
