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[QUOTE="arbitragegls, post: 313518, member: 302"]
Notre Dame and Swarbrick have fired the first salvo and it isnt necessarily positive (see link below).  It may be posturing but the cat is not out of the bag yet.
 
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Earlier in the week, reports surfaced that Notre Dame was in talks with the ACC about the Irish being a potential opponent for ACC teams in the Orange Bowl.
"I think there's been a little bit of misunderstanding with all of that," Swarbrick explained...

With the ACC locked into the Orange Bowl, a procedure for an opponent needs to be figured out--Swarbrick explains.

"It's a collective decision," Swarbrick said. "It's been portrayed as a Notre Dame discussion or somebody else's discussion but it's much more a collective effort to structure something that has a solution for the other side of the Orange Bowl.

"So a lot of us are engaged in that," Swarbrick continued. "It isn't limited to Notre Dame. We're making progress but there's more work to be done."

Swarbrick is certainly very satisfied with results of the 4-team playoff and how it all played out. More so, he feels it continues to allow Notre Dame to exist in the manner it wants.

"As we've said throughout all of our consideration for this--whether it's post-season solut
ions or conferences relationships--it starts with the premise of football independence and continue to be comfortable with our ability to do that and proceed that way," Swarbrick explained.

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