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Is It Time for Notre Dame to Fully Join a Football Conference?

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A week after SEC football media days in Alabama, the ACC held its Football Kickoff in North Carolina. While the Nick Sabans and Jimbo Fishers of college football held court with the media, Notre Dame football head coach Brian Kelly was finishing up at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship Tournament.

Kelly eschewed the microphone for a 9-iron while Notre Dame readies for the 2015 season as, of course, an independent.

But Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel caused a stir Monday with his comments, via ESPN’s Brett McMurphy:

Gary Pinkel said no independents in @CFBPlayoff.