Notre Dame now has five games at night with the Purdue matchup set for a 8pm kickoff in West Lafayette. Kickoff times for Pitt and Wake Forest are still not known.
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When it's all said and done, the Notre Dame football team could play more than half its games in 2011 at night.
The Irish battle with Purdue on October 1st will kickoff at 8pm, the Big Ten announced on Thursday. That gives Notre Dame five night games already with kickoff times for Pitt and Wake Forest yet to be announced.
Notre Dame will play Michigan in the first night game ever at Michigan Stadium September 10th at 8pm. It will be broadcast on ESPN.
The Irish will host its first night game in two decades against USC on October 22nd on NBC. Notre Dame's neutral site game against Maryland at FedExField will be a 7:30 kickoff as well on November 12th on NBC.
The Irish wrap up the regular season with an 8pm kickoff at Stanford on November 26th.
Here’s the current schedule for Notre Dame in 2011:
Date Opponent Time Television
Sept. 3 SOUTH FLORIDA 3:30 p.m. EDT NBC
Sept. 10 at Michigan 8 p.m. EDT ESPN
Sept. 17 MICHIGAN STATE 3:30 p.m. EDT NBC
Sept. 24 at Pittsburgh TBD ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
Oct. 1 at Purdue 8 p.m. EDT ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
Oct. 8 AIR FORCE 3:30 p.m. EDT NBC
Oct. 22 USC 7:30 p.m. EDT NBC
Oct. 29 NAVY 3:30p.m. EDT NBC
Nov. 5 at Wake Forest TBD TBD
Nov. 12 Maryland 7:30 p.m. EST NBC
(FedExField, Landover, Md.)
Nov. 19 BOSTON COLLEGE 4 p.m. EST NBC
Nov. 26 at Stanford 8 p.m. EST ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
