Notre Dame’s regular season will now conclude this Saturday as news has just come out that their game at Wake Forest on December 12 has been canceled.
This decision came from the ACC’s Athletic Director football committee who stated they will base qualifying for the ACC Championship Game on a nine-game schedule that the remaining contending teams all will have played.
Those remaining teams include No. 2 Notre Dame, who at 9-0 and with a win over Clemson has now officially clinched their spot in the December 19 title game.
The other two teams who remain in contention are Clemson and Miami who both have played eight conference games to date and despite sharing similar 7-1 conference marks, Clemson holds the tie-breaker over because of their head-to-head result early in the season.
Notre Dame will have the week before the ACC Championship Game off now as Wake Forest will make up their game with Lousiville that day. Duke will also travel to Florida State in ACC competition now on December 12.
Also worth noting from the ACC’s announcement is that if any game involving Notre Dame, Clemson or Miami were to be called-off this weekend, that game would be rescheduled for December 12.