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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will play their first-ever conference championship game in the only season they’ve been a conference member. On Tuesday, the ACC made an announcement that made Notre Dame’s rendezvous in Charlotte (it was anything but a done deal) a done deal. Notre Dame’s match against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on December 12 in Winston-Salem is called off, giving the Irish a mathematical advantage.
Through @theACC, the December 12 game against Wake Forest has been called off.
With the cancellation, the Irish landed a bid for the CCA Championship game on December 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
– Notre Dame Football PR Team (@NDFootballPR) December 1, 2020
Of course, we can thank Clemson’s Dabo Swinney for his role in all of this. First, Notre Dame defeated No.1 Clemson in South Bend on November 7, then all with Florida State and the covid-19 testing that ended Tigers vs Noles.
Other ACC schedule changes:
Wake will now play in Louisville on December 12 and against FSU on December 19.
FSU will play Duke on December 12.
So to sum it up: Dabo Swinney’s spite for FSU has led the ACC to cancel two games and schedule three new ones.
– Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 1, 2020
Welcome to be a conference member – ridiculous drama and powerhouse positioning to help the conference as a whole. While the Irish are sort of an ACC recipient working an angle to have 2 teams in the college football playoffs, it still seems like a giant joke to me.
At the very least, the funny tale we all shot in August about Notre Dame joining a conference for a year just to win the hell of a thing, then steam-roll the trophy – well, that becomes of more and more reality. Notre Dame will close the regular season this Saturday against the Syracuse Orange, in South Bend, for a shot at the ACC Championship game at 10-0 and No.2 (or better) in the country.
And just to make sure it’s crystal clear … Brian Kelly is going to a conference championship game with Notre Dame before Jim Harbaugh in Michigan.
Brian Kelly made a conference title match before Jim Harbaugh.
– Greg Flammang (@ greg2126) December 1, 2020
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