Notre Dame football will continue to practice, despite classes going virtual

Notre Dame football will continue to practice despite campus outbreak.

As expected, Notre Dame football will keep practicing despite positive tests on campus.

University of Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins announced on Monday classes will go to a remote setting for the next week to help combat an increase of positive coronavirus tests on the South Bend campus. Again, this was expected with students returning to campus for the fall semester, as some of them were probably tested for COVID-19 for the first time this week.

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Should we be any surprised Notre Dame football will keep practicing?

No, not at all. A similar situation has occurred at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on its campus. While UNC students have gone back to remote learning, Mack Brown’s football team remains unaffected and will continue to practice for the upcoming ACC season. Like Notre Dame, North Carolina has a terrific opportunity to play the Clemson Tigers in the ACC title bout.

For this one college football season, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish will be treated as full-fledged members of the ACC. Given that the Irish compete in all other sports in the ACC anyway and have six games annually against ACC opponents, it made all the sense in the world for them to be included in the ACC’s plans to have a college football season. Plus, Notre Dame football is huge.

Having that lucrative NBC television contract is the crown jewel of all college athletic departments. Because the ACC is allowing them to play a full 10-game season, that lucrative NBC television contract will be split 15 ways between Notre Dame and the 14 full-time ACC member institutions. It might stink for Notre Dame, but then again, so would not playing a college football season.

As for the Irish on the field, you better believe they want to play. Notre Dame went to the College Football Playoff two seasons ago after a 12-0 campaign. Going 10-0 with this ACC schedule is probably not happening, but the Irish have a tremendous opportunity to get in as ACC Champions should they beat Clemson. Notre Dame can be ACC Football Champions, if you can believe that.

Even with classes going to remote learning for two weeks, the football team won’t skip a beat.

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