Notre Dame football to wear green jerseys Saturday vs. Louisville
It’s happening. The Irish are actually wearing green on Saturday. Not just the student body and 10s of thousands of other fans who will enter Notre Dame Stadium to watch the No. 16 Fighting Irish (3-1) take on the No. 15 Louisville Cardinals (3-0).
The Irish players themselves, too.
Head coach Marcus Freeman said in his Monday press conference he would meet with Notre Dame team captains that afternoon to come to a consensus on whether or not the Irish football team would wear green against the Cardinals. It’s been announced for over a month that the Louisville game would be the fans’ “Irish Wear Green” game, but no game-day threads were ever released by the university.
That was a big departure from the first two years of the Freeman era. There were robust social media reveals for Notre Dame’s green jerseys for the Cal game in 2022 and the Ohio State game last year, very similar to the July reveal of this year’s Shamrock Series game against Army in November.
This year, Blue & Gold asked Freeman what decision the team captains came to on Monday. He said, simply, yes, Notre Dame will be dressed out in green. He did not say anything further.
Per Blue & Gold sources, it’ll be a green jersey top and white pants with the patented gold helmet. Last year, the Irish wore all green — matching green jerseys and pants. The year before, the Irish came out in green jerseys with blue numbers and the traditional gold pants.
There is an option on the new EA Sports College Football 25 video game that enables users to go with a uniform scheme of exactly that; the gold helmet, green jersey tops with white numbers and a white interlocking ND logo on the shoulders with gold accents around both of those attributes and white pants. As always, players will be allowed to wear whichever cleat color coincides with the style of footwear they prefer.
Notre Dame has a record of 43-16-1 wearing green jerseys since 1977. Most of those games were with Dan Devine at the helm. He had his guys wear green 42 straight games and posted a record of 32-9-1. Since then, here’s how each head coach has fared when putting the Irish in green.
- Gerry Faust (2-0)
- Lou Holtz (1-1)
- Bob Davie (0-1)
- Tyrone Willingham (0-1)
- Charlie Weis (1-2)
- Brian Kelly (5-1)
- Marcus Freeman (1-1)
