Notre Dame NIL Roster Value: #3 Ranked Team, #5 Richest Roster

Notre Dame is 5-0 and ranked #3 in the country. termiNIL's model ranks its roster #5: $47.53 million in modeled NIL value, behind Oregon, Texas, Ohio State and Georgia. Neither gap is large — the Irish sit within 9.17% of the #1 roster and within 1.06% of #4 — but the roster's internal shape is the more useful story than where it lands on a 138-team list.

Notre Dame is also the only independent program inside the national top 25 by roster value. Every other team near it reports into the SEC, Big Ten, ACC or Big 12; the Irish's $47.53 million answers to no conference total at all.

How much is Notre Dame's NIL roster worth in 2026?

$47.53 million, as of October 6, 2026, spread across 111 scholarship players. That's the fifth-highest roster value of any of the 138 programs in termiNIL's model — 9.17% behind Oregon ($51.89M), 5.26% behind Texas ($50.02M), 4.42% behind Ohio State ($49.63M), and 1.06% behind Georgia ($48.03M). Texas A&M, in sixth, trails Notre Dame by 2.02%.

Carr is worth 2.74 times the next-highest Irish player, Jordan Faison at $2.12 million, and his $5.81 million alone is 12.22% of the entire roster's value. After Faison, the roster spreads across the defense: two edge rushers, a cornerback, a safety and a linebacker all cluster between $1.08M and $1.76M, rather than stacking behind one star beyond Carr.

Why isn't the #3 team also the #3 NIL roster?

Notre Dame's on-field ranking and its NIL valuation come from different inputs. The CFP committee and AP poll weigh wins, margin and schedule; termiNIL weighs performance grade, position premium and audience, repriced continuously through the season. A 5-0 team can rank #3 nationally while sitting two spots lower by roster value — Notre Dame would need to close a 1.06% gap on Georgia and a 4.42% gap on Ohio State to match its on-field slot. Those are small margins by this model's standards, not a sign the roster is underpriced.

Which position group is worth the most on Notre Dame's roster?

Wide receiver, at 19.37% of roster value, narrowly ahead of quarterback (17.80%), edge rusher (14.12%) and cornerback (10.59%). That ordering matches the national market: across all 15,066 tracked players, wide receivers hold $640.59 million in total modeled value against quarterbacks' $603.09 million — 6.22% more — even though the median quarterback ($553K) is worth 3.5 times the median wide receiver ($158K). Fewer quarterbacks get priced at all; the ones who do carry a bigger premium, but there are enough receivers on every roster that the position's total catches up.

Notre Dame's 111 players average $428,171 each, 1.98 times the $216,478 national mean across the sport. The roster's $47.53 million is 1.46% of the entire $3.26 billion college football NIL market on its own.

Why don't all of Notre Dame's players show up in the rankings?

termiNIL's plausibility audit currently excludes eight Notre Dame valuations from the ranked tables above — players priced at six or seven figures without enough grade or snap data yet to support the number, a pattern the audit calls out across many rosters, not just Notre Dame's. Their dollars still count toward the $47.53 million total; they simply aren't named in a top-10 list until the model's confidence catches up to the price.

For the full, continuously repriced roster — including confidence tiers on every player — see Notre Dame's live page in the termiNIL terminal, or compare it directly against Georgia's roster, the team one spot ahead.

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