(updated Jan. 17, 2025)

With a 12-team College Football Playoff and extra games on the Notre Dame schedule, the Blue & Gold Illustrated calendar is as follows:
• Issue 44-14 (February cover date) will mail on Jan. 11. It will recap the three postseason games and preview the championship game (Jan. 20). It will be expedited as first-class to subscribers with seasonal-first class accounts.
• Special Issue 44-15 (March cover date) — If Notre Dame wins the CFP title game, we will produce a special national championship issue of BGI magazine. This special issue would be mailed on or about Jan. 30. To make this part of your subscription at no additional cost, we would mail the football recruiting issue 44-16 in March instead of February.
• BGI Subscribers will also receive a game recap edition of our newsletter, Blue Gold Report, on Tuesday, January 21.
• Special Commemorative Edition — If Notre Dame wins the CFP title game, we will begin accepting preorders for a National Championship Special Commemorative Edition that will be available in both a hardcover book format as well as a glossy magazine edition similar to our annual BGI Football Preview magazine. The content — somewhere between 160 and 192 pages (still TBD) — would be identical, just published as two different formats at different price points. Stay tuned for more details.
• Issue 44-15 (March cover date) — If Notre Dame loses the CFP title game, there will not be any special issues as noted above. Win or lose, our monthly offseason publication schedule will resume with this Football Recruiting issue. But if it’s following a loss, it will also contain a wrap-up of the CFP national championship week and game. This issue will be mailed on Thursday, Feb. 13.

Given the ongoing challenges with U.S. Postal Service delivery time frames, we urge you to take advantage of our digital edition for immediate access to our coverage — it is included with all subscriptions to Blue & Gold Illustrated magazine.