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The ACC made official what we all expected Thursday as the conference announced that football will return in September of 2021 with an eight-game conference schedule for all member-schools.
Notre Dame will return to being independent as we all expected would happen and the ACC will again be split into the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, both comprising of seven teams.
Notre Dame is still scheduled to play five ACC opponents in 2021 with those games being the following:
Sept 5 – at Florida State
Oct. 9 – at Virginia Tech
Oct. 30 – vs. North Carolina
Nov. 13 – at Virginia
Nov. 20 – vs. Georgia Tech
Also noted in the ACC’s release is that:
The league membership also elected to play the 2021 season as it was originally scheduled and as a result, there are several repeat site games from 2019 and 2020. Each ACC team will play six division games, one permanent crossover opponent and one rotating opponent from the opposite division.
And that:
The return to a traditional schedule is contingent on national, state and local health guidelines allowing such competition to occur.
As it was announced today, the ACC will have teams playing on each day between Thursday, Sept. 2, through Sunday, Sept. 5 on college football’s opening weekend.
With the official news, now maybe Notre Dame’s social media team will follow through with something they teased back in September…
Felt cute, might delete next year. 😎#GoIrish x #Rally pic.twitter.com/clnbxNEeOF
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) September 3, 2020
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