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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1141011, member: 652"] The ACC and Notre Dame have a contract which precludes the Irish from joining any other conference before 2026. I doubt Notre Dame would want to challenge that. The ACC wanted 6 annual games, Notre Dame wanted only 4 annual games so the 2 sides split the difference. Notre Dame wants to play a national schedule still, but it was getting tougher to schedule teams in October-November because of teams playing conference schedules. The Pac-12 and Big Ten have rules against non-conference games after week 4. The Pac-12 has granted USC and Stanford exemptions to this rule, but the B1G does not do the same for Notre Dame who typically has played 3 B1G teams annually. I highly doubt this 60 game contract with ACC will be revised by either side unless the college football playoff passes a rule that requires teams to be in conference which I do not expect. That would by contract require the Irish to be members of the ACC until 2026. [/QUOTE]