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Breaking: Notre Dame’s home start times for 2020 season

The home game start times for the 2020 Fighting Irish Football team have been announced.

The Irish have had their finalized schedule and now know the start times to their foray into the ACC during this odd 2020 season. Although it’s just the home games, it means that college football is creeping closer to it’s start.

No surprise that when the Clemson Tigers come into town, it’s going to be a night game. This contest is arguably the most anticipated game of the regular season, and you can probably expect ESPN’s College Game Day to be on campus as well.

Kickoff against Duke can’t come soon enough, as we still await the announcement of the road slate. This still is enough for us to get excited for the season to begin.

Initial thoughts on Notre Dame’s 2020 schedule

A few immediate thoughts regarding the Fighting Irish’s first ACC conference schedule plus one.

As the Irish venture into the ACC for the season, their schedule was finalized finalized this morning along with finding out where they landed in the Amway Coaches poll powered by USA Today Sports. Here are a few thoughts on how the schedule is set up the Fighting Irish.

Clemson is still the toughest test for the regular season as they came in #1 in the Amway Coaches poll. The addition of #19 North Carolina will be tough, but the Tigers are still one of the best teams in the country. Dabo Swinney has recruited very well and his team is loaded with top-end talent led by quarterback Trevor Lawrence. The Irish get an advantage by hosting the Tigers, but without fans, this might negate playing in South Bend.

Keeping on the Clemson game, the schedule sets up well for the Irish and they should be going into the November 7th game against the Tigers a clean 7-0. The most difficult game prior to facing Clemson will be Louisville, they will put up some points this season. Quarterback Micale Cunningham and wide receiver Tutu Atwell make up one of the best QB-WR tandems in the country, but the defense was atrocious last year. The Irish scored 35 points in the ’19 opener against the Cardinals which was two points over what their season average was last year. That effort put them 109th in the country and the Irish have plenty of time to find new skills position stars prior to that game.

The bye weeks come at a great time. We could nitpick a little bit about the six-game stretch between the first and last bye week, but it works out fairly well for the Irish. It would have been nice to see a bye before or around the Clemson game but having one in front of traveling to North Carolina is almost as good. Getting an extra week to prepare to go on the road and face a Top 25 team is ideal.

All in all, the Irish seem to have path that doesn’t pose many roadblocks to get back to Bank of America Stadium and compete for the ACC Championship. A split of the Clemson and North Carolina games while taking care of the rest of the lesser opponents would put the Irish at 10-1 which should be enough to be one of the top two teams in the ACC. Let’s hope it works out that way, with the Irish getting a chance to play for a conference title for the first time ever on December 12th and a College Football Playoff berth.

ACC Football Schedule 2020 Composite Conference Only. 10 Most Interesting Games

The modified version of the 2020 ACC only football schedule with the week-by-week ranking along with the ten most interesting games

The modified version of the 2020 ACC only football schedule with the week-by-week ranking of all of the games.

ACC Football Schedule Composite 2020

Each week’s games ranking from most interesting to least.

Ten Most Interesting ACC games

1. Clemson at Notre Dame, Nov. 7
2. Miami at Clemson, Oct. 10
3. Clemson at Florida State, Nov. 21
4. Florida State at Notre Dame, Oct. 10
5. Virginia at Clemson, Oct. 3
6. Virginia at Virginia Tech, Sept. 19
7. Miami at Virginia Tech
, Nov. 14
8. Florida State at Miami, Sept. 26
9. Virginia Tech at North Carolina, Oct. 10
10. Notre Dame at Pitt
, Oct. 24

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ACC Football Schedule Week 1

Thursday, Sept. 10
UAB at Miami

Friday, Sept. 11
VMI at Virginia

Saturday, Sept. 12
Clemson at Wake Forest
Syracuse at North Carolina
NC State at Virginia Tech
Duke at Notre Dame
WKU at Louisville
Miami University at Pitt
Ohio at Boston College

ACC Football Schedule Week 2

Saturday, Sept. 19
Virginia at Virginia Tech
Miami at Louisville
Syracuse at Pitt
Boston College at Duke
UCF at Georgia Tech
Wake Forest at NC State
Western Michigan at Notre Dame
Samford at Florida State
TBA at Clemson
TBA at North Carolina

ACC Football Schedule Week 3

Saturday, Sept. 26
Florida State at Miami
Notre Dame at Wake Forest
Louisville at Pitt
Georgia Tech at Syracuse

ACC Football Schedule Week 4

Saturday, Oct. 3
Virginia at Clemson
NC State at Pitt
Virginia Tech at Duke
North Carolina at Boston College

ACC Football Schedule Week 5

Friday, Oct. 9
Louisville at Georgia Tech
Old Dominion at Wake Forest

Saturday, Oct. 10
Miami at Clemson
Florida State at Notre Dame
Virginia Tech at North Carolina
NC State at Virginia
Pitt at Boston College
Duke at Syracuse

ACC Football Schedule Week 6

Saturday, Oct. 17
Louisville at Notre Dame
North Carolina at Florida State
Pitt at Miami
Boston College at Virginia Tech
Duke at NC State
Virginia at Wake Forest
Clemson at Georgia Tech
Liberty at Syracuse

ACC Football Schedule Week 7

Saturday, Oct. 24
Notre Dame at Pitt
Virginia at Miami
Florida State at Louisville
NC State at North Carolina
Syracuse at Clemson
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest
Georgia Tech at Boston College

ACC Football Schedule Week 8

Saturday, Oct. 31
Virginia Tech at Louisville
North Carolina at Virginia
Wake Forest at Syracuse
Boston College at Clemson
Notre Dame at Georgia Tech
Charlotte at Duke

ACC Football Schedule Week 9

Friday, Nov. 6
Miami at NC State

Saturday, Nov. 7
Clemson at Notre Dame
Pitt at Florida State
Louisville at Virginia
North Carolina at Duke
Boston College at Syracuse
Liberty at Virginia Tech

ACC Football Schedule Week 10

Saturday, Nov. 14
Miami at Virginia Tech
Florida State at NC State
Notre Dame at Boston College
Wake Forest at North Carolina
Duke at Virginia
Pitt at Georgia Tech

ACC Football Schedule Week 11

Friday, Nov. 20
Syracuse at Louisville

Saturday, Nov. 21
Clemson at Florida State
Virginia Tech at Pitt
Georgia Tech at Miami
Wake Forest at Duke
Liberty at NC State

ACC Football Schedule Week 12

Friday, Nov. 27
Notre Dame at North Carolina
Louisville at Boston College

Saturday, Nov. 28
Pitt at Clemson
Virginia at Florida State
NC State at Syracuse
Miami at Wake Forest
Duke at Georgia Tech

ACC Football Schedule Week 13

Saturday, Dec. 5
Clemson at Virginia Tech
North Carolina at Miami
Syracuse at Notre Dame
Wake Forest at Louisville
Boston College at Virginia
Florida State at Duke
Georgia Tech at NC State

ACC Football Championship

Saturday, Dec. 12 or 19
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC

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Clemson Will Play at Notre Dame After Bye Week

Some Notre Dame fans may be upset about the fact Clemson gets an extra week to prepare and get healthy for Notre Dame.

The ACC announced its schedule for the 2020 football season on Wednesday morning and Notre Dame fans probably aren’t going to be too happy.

That is because the marquee opponent of 2020, the defending national runner up and the team that figures to be a runaway number one entering the season will be coming off their bye week when they play at Notre Dame in November 7.

That’s right, the Clemson Tigers will play Syracuse on October 24, have a bye week on Halloween weekend and then come to Notre Dame on November 7.

Meanwhile, Notre Dame will play host to Duke on Halloween before welcoming Clemson to Notre Dame Stadium for only the second time ever a week later.

Are you surprised?

I’m not but I’m not upset about it, either.

You may recall that Notre Dame played seven teams coming off a bye week last year and went 7-0 in such games. Meanwhile the Irish went 1-1 after the bye in 2019 including the debacle at Michigan to end October.

To me that’s life as an independent. When you say you embrace getting everyone else’s best shots that doesn’t just for middle of the road squads who play their best game of the year against you.

It goes for the elite programs like Clemson as well.

Don’t make excuses, make plays.

Get me to November already!