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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://fightingirishwire.usatoday.com/lists/big-ten-opponents-notre-dame-should-play-annually-if-it-ever-joins/

The above article lists 7 Big Ten opponent. Currently, Notre Dame has agreed to play 5 ACC games per year. The regular college football season consists of 12 games. 7 plus 5 is 12.[/quote]

My suggestion is that Notre Dame--if it played a 13 game regular season--could satisfy its contract for 5 ACC games per year and satisfy the Big Ten's requirement of 8 Big Ten Conference games per year. OR one conference could be flexible and bend the requirement by one game for Notre Dame.

The obvious issue would be that a successful Notre Dame team could only play for one conference championship.

Also, for a plan like this to work, Navy might have to join the ACC as the Notre Dame/Navy rivalry is a strong tradition.

Nevertheless, money is the fuel and the solution to issues such as these.[/quote]

Why would the Big 10 be flexible where ND is concerned?  They don’t need them. [/quote]

You are correct in stating that the Big Ten Conference doesn't need Notre Dame; the Big Ten Conference wants Notre Dame.

The Big Ten is & has been flexible regarding Notre Dame. Notre Dame has an open invitation to join the conference and, before Notre Dame's recent entrance into the AAU (American Association of Universities), the Big Ten Conference waived that informal requirement only for Notre Dame. (Nebraska, the only Big Ten Conference non-AAU member school, was an AAU member when it initially joined the Big Ten Conference.)

Notre Dame brings a devoted national audience and Notre Dame has a convenient midwestern location & one of the most storied and historical football programs in the nation. Several Big Ten schools have a football rivalry with Notre Dame.

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I was referring to being flexible remark. The B1G will not give ND any special privileges compared to its other schools.  [/quote]

No way to know this until a deal is done.

The Big Ten Conference can do whatever the member teams agree to do. [b]Being flexible to attract & enroll Notre Dame could be a wise move financially for all Big Ten member schools.
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The biggest issue might be the 8 game annual scheduling requirement against Big Ten Conference schools in light of notre Dame's 5 game commitment to the ACC when college teams play 12 regular season games. Most likely, the ACC would bend making a Big Ten scheduling exception a moot point.[/quote]

I think we're past that point. The TV deal is done and runs through 2030. Unless that deal has a clause specific to adding ND, then it doesn't move the needle any more than adding any other school would. Who knows what the landscape will look like by 2030. Right now two mega conferences followed by an enlarged Big12 looks very possible. If the ACC implodes like people expect and the SEC and Big10 both pick up the biggest names and the PAC12 media deal is as bad as people think and schools bail to the Big12 and Big10 rather than accepting it, then you may end up with ND being the one who needs to find a conference [/quote]

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