As the fallout continues from the Big Ten and Pac-12 officially dropping conference games from the 2020 college football season, initial steps are taking place as to the fallout.
As we’ve discussed on Fighting Irish Wire since the Big Ten news broke Thursday afternoon, the ACC appears to be Notre Dame’s life raft if 2020 only sees conference games played nationally.
The University of Miami (FL) will lose their contest against Michigan State and according to their athletic director, would be plenty excited to replace the Spartans with Notre Dame.
“If the opportunity for a match up with ND is presented, we would be thrilled to have that game added to our 2020 schedule.” Blake James – University of Miami Athletic Director to the Miami Herald
Miami was one of our guesses as a replacement if Notre Dame were to play an all-ACC schedule.
In terms of name brand you can’t ask for much more than Miami, even if they’re coming off a 6-7 campaign in 2019. They’ve added quarterback D’Eriq King from Houston who brings stability to a position that has been an issue of late for the Hurricanes.
Notre Dame and Miami have not met since November of 2017 in what ended in disaster for the Fighting Irish, a 41-8 defeat.
Notre Dame and Miami are currently set to resume the old “Catholics vs. Convicts” rivalry in 2024 and 2025 as part of the ACC/Notre Dame scheduling agreement.