As has been expected for quite some time, Notre Dame’s season opener against Navy has been moved and rescheduled. No longer will the teams open up in Dublin, Ireland, instead they’ll play at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Labor Day weekend in a national broadcast on either ABC or ESPN.
The moving of the game is because of the worldwide Coronavirus that will keep attendance at college football games down significantly this fall.
The Navy release also adds that both programs will work with event organizers to plan a return trip to Ireland in the future and that information about ticket refunds will be forthcoming.
This will be the 94th consecutive meeting between Notre Dame and Navy, the longest-continuous-sectional-rivalry in college football. Never in the 93 times previous has Notre Dame ever played at Navy’s home stadium in Annapolis.
Notre Dame leads the all-time series against Navy 79-13-1 and has won eight of the last nine contests against the Midshipmen after dropping three of four in the series from 2007 to 2010.
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