Blue Wins 76-31 In Modified Scoring Blue-Gold Scrimmage

2025 Blue Gold Game Final Stats

2025 Blue Gold Game Scoring Recap

2025 Blue Gold Game Photo Recap

The University of Notre Dame football team participated in the 2025 Blue-Gold Game on a sunny early spring Saturday afternoon in Notre Dame Stadium. The contest was set up as an offense (Blue) versus defense (Gold) scrimmage over the course of 12 different series featuring all of the available student-athletes from the Fighting Irish roster.

Attendance was announced at 40,621.

The Blue scored four touchdowns and kicked two field goals while also earning points for first downs and plays over 20 yards. The Gold points were earned from defensive stops, sacks and tackles for loss. Perhaps the highlight of the defensive effort was a goal line stand on the seventh series of the scrimmage. The Blue earned a first-and-goal from the eight yard line, then a second and goal from the two before back-to-back stops at the goal line from junior safety Luke Talich earned the defensive stop. 

Freshman CJ Carr threw for 170 yards and two touchdowns and also tossed the lone interception of the game for the Irish quarterbacks. Sophomore Kenny Minchey was six-for-14 for 106 yards and rushed for a score while junior Steve Angeli was an efficient eight-for-11 for 108 yards and a touchdown. 

The quarterback’s touchdown throws went to early-enrollee freshman Elijah Burress for two yards (from Carr), classmate Scrap Richardson for 16 yards (from Angeli) and sophomore Xavier Southall from 27 yards out from Carr. 

Jadarian Price led all rushers with 44 yards on six early attempts before taking the rest of the scrimmage off. Aneyas Williams led all rushers with 12 carries (for 38 yards) and Gi’Bran Payne returned to action after missing the 2024 season with an injury to carry the ball nine times for 30 yards. 

The Irish defense had eight tackles for the loss in the contest with Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa posting two. Talich led all defenders with nine tackles, followed by early enrollee freshman Ethan Long, freshman defensive lineman Cole Mullins, senior cornerback Mikey Brown and junior transfer defensive lineman Elijah Hughes all with five tackles each.