The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly and play home games at the campus Notre Dame Stadium, with a capacity of 80,795. Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition (BCS).[2] The Fighting Irish hold the highest winning percentage among college football programs[3] and have 13 national championships recognized by the NCAA, tied for first out of all FBS schools in the post-1900 era.[4] A record seven Notre Dame players have won the Heisman trophy and the program has produced an NCAA record 96 consensus All-Americans and 32 unanimous All-Americans, more than any other university.[5] As of the 2013 NFL Draft, Notre Dame has produced and have had drafted the most NFL players of all-time. All Notre Dame home games are televised on Notre Dame Football on NBC. Notre Dame is the only individual school to have its own national television contract,[6][7] declined a subsequent invitation by the Big Ten to join the conference,[8] and is the only independent program to be part of the BCS coalition and its guaranteed payout. These factors help make Notre Dame one of the most financially valuable football programs in the country.[9][10]
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