As conferences scramble to put together a plan for the 2020 college football season after the Big Ten announced it would be playing a conference-only schedule on Thursday, one of the Power-Five conferences is floating an interesting idea. According to 99.9FM The Fan radio host Joe Giglio, the ACC is considering a ten-game schedule consisting of a home-and-home between five different opponents.
Notre Dame would also be included and count in the ACC standings, and there wouldn't be any other games against teams outside the league. Adding Notre Dame to the mix would help them fill their schedule (they are an FBS Independent team) and make the five home-and-home games possible with the Fighting Irish being the 15th team in the ACC.
According to Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter David Teel, ACC commissioner John Swofford has said that if the league adopts an all-conference football schedule for 2020, Notre Dame likely will be in the mix.
In 2020, Notre Dame first plays an ACC opponent on September 26, away at Wake Forest. After that first game against an ACC opponent, the Fighting Irish play ACC teams five consecutive weeks in a row from October 17 to November 21.
Those five opponents, in order, are Pitt, Duke, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and Louisville. Notre Dame is a member of the ACC in all other sports except for hockey.
This report of the proposed five opponent home-and-home schedule contradicts a report from earlier today that claimed SEC East schools and ACC state rivals may want to still try to play their originally scheduled contests. However, this would only benefit the SEC if the ACC adds Notre Dame and finalizes the proposed five opponent home-and-home schedule.
Last month, ACC Commissioner John Swofford joined The Paul Finebaum Show to discuss the latest steps in college football and the challenges ahead.
“I think we’ve made the decisions that we can make and should make up to this point in time,” Swofford said. “We haven’t altered the preseason practice period at this point in time, there’s no reason to at this point in time. So I think that the decisions that can be made have been made. But it’s odd being in a situation beyond that where coaches and athletic directors and commissioners that are in leadership roles are used to making decisions and moving on and you’re action-oriented. In a sense, with some of this, we’re in a holding pattern where we’re not at a point to make definitive decisions yet. We’re proceeding as if we will start the football season on time and we will play a full season. But we also know that either of those could be altered, either significantly or not so significantly. So we’re having to develop a lot of different scenarios and spend a lot of time and energy on different scenarios that may or may not come into play.”
Swofford was asked by Finebaum about when college football is a full-on green light “go.”
“Well I think that when we reach mid-July, hopefully that’s a more definitive point,” Swofford said. “I think that’s a benchmark certainly when you reach a point where you’re starting practice and that first weekend of games is in sight and potentially a reality at that point. Then it all starts becoming more and more real. I do think that we’re all moving ahead on the basis that we will start and that we will start on time. If that changes we will adjust and I think we’ll be ready to adjust to whatever we may have to adjust to. It may be a Fall that is very different than any other Fall, there may be some teams playing more games than others based on testing and potential outbreaks and different locales and every conference has different state regulations that will have to be dealt with.”
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