The teams' current seasons

Seasons of 2026, as they stand in November

The Cubs' summer: The South Bend Cubs' 2026 season is complete and stands as the best in the franchise's record: a league-best 77–51, a first-half title — the club's first since 2016 — season attendance of 314,301, the franchise's 2,500th win along the way, and 6,039 people at the playoff game of 10 September 2026, the largest postseason crowd in club history. The season ended in the division series. The club's full record stands in the Sports section and its team-history leg.

Notre Dame football, mid-season: The university's football season is in progress as this section closes: 8–1 as of 9 November 2026, ranked fourth in the Associated Press poll of 2 November and eleventh in the College Football Playoff committee's first rankings of 3 November 2026, and third in the Associated Press poll of 9 November after the Miami win, the only loss a 28–24 defeat at BYU, with a 35–13 win over Navy on 31 October and a 31–24 win over top-ranked Miami on 7 November behind it. Head coach Marcus Freeman's record stands at 51–13 through 9 November 2026, under a restructured contract running through 2031, agreed on 29 December 2025. The season's verdict belongs to the update cycle; the eleven claimed national titles and the vacated-wins arithmetic of the Kelly years stand in the football leg of this history.

The women's fiftieth season: Notre Dame women's basketball — whose two Easter Sunday championships and fifty-year record stand in their own team-history section — opened its fiftieth varsity season ranked thirteenth in both national polls and picked fourth in the ACC's preseason poll, and stands 2–0 as of 9–10 November 2026: a 99–75 win over Villanova in Rome on 1 November, Hannah Hidalgo scoring 32, and a 123–40 home-opening win over Stonehill on 6 November, with Detroit Mercy next at home on 10 November. This entry is a pointer; the program's present state is kept in its own section, which closes with the same November standing.

Sources:

1. South Bend Cubs and Minor League Baseball — club releases, September 2026 (the 77–51 record, the first-half title, attendance 314,301, the 2,500th win, the 6,039 postseason crowd of 10 September 2026).
2. Associated Press poll and College Football Playoff rankings, 3–9 November 2026; University of Notre Dame football record (Freeman 51–13 through 9 November 2026; the restructured contract through 2031, 29 December 2025).
3. University and ACC releases and game accounts, November 2026 — the women's basketball preseason polls, the Rome and Stonehill games, the 2–0 standing; the Notre Dame women's basketball team-history section of this history.
4. The Sports section of this history — the Cubs' and the city's other current seasons in full.