Next meeting October 20, 2018 | Meetings total 70 | |
First meeting October 30, 1909
Notre Dame, 6–0 Latest meeting November 7, 2015
Notre Dame, 42–30 All-time series Notre Dame leads, 48–21–1 Largest victory Notre Dame, 58–0 (1944) | ||
The Notre Dame–Pittsburgh football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Pittsburgh Panthers.
This storied series began in 1909, and there have been no more than two consecutive seasons without two teams meeting each other except between 1913–29, 1938–42, and 1979–81. Since 1982, the Panthers and Irish have remained a relative fixture on each other's schedules. Notre Dame leads the series 48–21–1. The longest game in Notre Dame history occurred between the two schools in 2008, when Pitt defeated ND in a record 4 overtimes by a field goal. The 2012 contest saw Notre Dame erase a 20–6 deficit in the fourth quarter and force overtime. The Irish won 29–26 in triple overtime after the Panthers narrowly missed a game-winning field goal in the second overtime. In 2013 both schools joined the ACC (Pitt for all sports including football, and Notre Dame for non-football sports), which led to the schools playing at least once every three years. Their ACC matches began in 2013 in Pittsburgh with a 28–21 Panthers win; the most recent game was a 42–30 Irish win in 2015. The game often gets a large amount of national media attention and most often is televised on major television channels like NBC (when Notre Dame is the home team), ABC, and ESPN.