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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 5597816, member: 5685"] I don't think that they could pull off the Big East and FB Indy any longer. Even with the 5 ACC games it will be hard for them to have 10 P4 games every year going forward. The P4s will be at 9+1 which leaves fewer spots for ND to fill. Without the 5 ACC games it becomes even harder. I am sure BC, Pitt, Stanford will be willing to keep playing ND every year. But that still leaves ND in a hole. Any team with playoff aspirations will not want to play ND past Columbus Day. Even with Navy, a G6, the 3 ACC teams mentioned above, and a bye week, ND will still need to play 2 other games. I suppose they could get games vs bottom to middling P4 programs, but that will hurt ND's SOS similar to this year where they played nobody after A&M. Without the ACC deal, ND might be forced to join a conference. [/QUOTE]