A decade or two from now, when we all look back on these miserable couple years, the football aspect that may be hardest to believe will be that Notre Dame and Navy did not play in 2020. A game that was originally scheduled for Dublin and then moved to Annapolis came off the schedule entirely when the Irish sought out South Florida for a home game rather than invite the Midshipmen to South Bend.
There undoubtedly were further complications preventing that audible, which Notre Dame’s one-year ACC membership mandated be held in Indiana rather than in Maryland, as the former hosts an Atlantic Coast Conference school and the latter does not.