Issue link: https://comanpub.uberflip.com/i/124470
Under the Dome Notre Dame Announces Future ACC Games On April 19, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced its first three-year football rotation (2014-16) with Notre Dame when the Fighting Irish begin their affiliation with the ACC as a partial football member in 2014. There were three primary objectives. • Notre Dame is required to play five ACC members each year, rotating with three at home and two on the road one year, and then two at home and three on the road the next. • Each of the 14 league members will be played by Notre Dame during the first three-year rotation. The Fighting Irish and Seminoles, who last squared of in the Champs Sports Bowl in December 2011, are expected to renew acquaintances in 2014. photo by greg oyster • During the second three-year rotation from 2017-19, each of the 14 league members will have played the Fighting Irish at home and in Notre Dame Stadium at least once. In a couple of cases, Notre Dame already had an ACC team on the schedule prior to joining the league. It will still play in 2014 versus Syracuse (MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.) as planned, and play host to Miami at home in 2016, as planned. In other cases, there are changes. Notre Dame was slated to host Pitt in 2014, but the ACC realignment has changed the structure. The Panthers will host the Irish in 2015, which had already been scheduled before either team joined the ACC. Here is the tentative breakdown with the knowledge that 1) no dates have been set yet for the ACC games and 2) Navy, Stanford and USC are the three consistent annual teams on the slate: