| 2017 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football | |
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Citrus Bowl champion | |
Citrus Bowl, W 21–17 vs. LSU | |
| Conference | Independent |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 11 |
| AP | No. 11 |
| Record | 10–3 |
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| Offensive coordinator | Chip Long (1st season) |
| Offensive scheme | Spread |
| Defensive coordinator | Mike Elko (1st season) |
| Base defense | 4–2–5 |
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| Home stadium | Notre Dame Stadium[1] |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army | – | 10 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 11 Notre Dame | – | 10 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMass | – | 4 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BYU | – | 4 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rankings from AP Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Brian Kelly and played its home games at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana. They competed as an independent. They finished the season 10–3, an impressive turnaround from the season before, where the Irish finished with their worst record since 2007. They were invited to the Citrus Bowl where they defeated LSU. The Irish would finish the season with four wins over teams that finished in the top 25 rankings (both the AP and Coaches polls), including winning three of those by over 20 points or more.
- ^ Irish, The Fighting. "SELLOUT (x256)@NDFootball opens the enhanced Notre Dame Stadium to a packed crowd of 77,622. ND – Temple 3:30pm ET – NBC #GoIrishpic.twitter.com/RQP5zDLVuX". Retrieved January 20, 2018.