Auburn football announces home-and-home with Notre Dame for 2027-28 seasons

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AUBURN — For the first time ever, Auburn football will square off with Notre Dame in 2027, as the front end of a home-and-home with the Fighting Irish, the program announced Wednesday, Nov. 5

Two of the winningest programs in the sport’s history will face off Sept. 25, 2027, in South Bend, Indiana, before playing at Jordan-Hare Stadium on Oct. 28, 2028.

The Fighting Irish are one of 42 FBS programs Auburn has never faced, a list which includes seven Power 4 teams. Through 2030, Auburn is scheduled to face only one other first-time opponent when it hosts Middle Tennessee in 2027.

Notre Dame’s addition amplifies a presumed gauntlet for Auburn under the SEC’s new scheduling model. The Tigers are hosting Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas A&M in 2027, as well as traveling to Texas. In 2028, they’ll make a quartet of daunting road trips, heading to Alabama, Florida, Georgia and LSU.

Under the new schedule model, SEC teams are required to schedule at least one additional “high-quality” opponent from the ACC, Big Ten or Big 12 conferences or Notre Dame as part of their three nonconference games.

In 2026, Auburn will face Baylor in a neutral site contest. It has also scheduled a home-and-home with Miami for the 2029 and 2030 seasons.

Here’s how Auburn’s upcoming schedules shake out with the Notre Dame addition.

Auburn football’s future schedules, SEC opponents

  • 2026
    • Aug. 29: vs. Baylor*
    • Sept. 12: vs. Southern Miss
    • Sept. 26: vs. Jacksonville State
      • SECopponents
        • Home: Arkansas, Florida, LSU, Vanderbilt
        • Road: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee
  • 2027
    • Sept. 11: vs. Middle Tennessee
    • Sept. 18: vs. Missouri State
    • Sept. 25: at Notre Dame
      • SEC opponents
        • Home: Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas A&M
        • Road: Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Vanderbilt
  • 2028
    • Sept. 9: vs. North Alabama
    • Oct. 28: vs. Notre Dame
      • SECopponents
        • Home: Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
        • Road: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, LSU
  • 2029
    • Sept. 1: at Miami (FL)
      • SEC
        • Home: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas
        • Road: Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
  • 2030
    • Aug. 31: vs. Miami (FL)

Asterisks denote neutral site contests.

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