After this afternoon, the Notre Dame Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels will have met three years straight. Not bad for an ACC arrangement that should have those meetings come on an average of every three years.
The 2021 and 2022 rendezvous were always scheduled, and the pandemic forcing scheduling on the fly led to the 2020 date. After today, they now will not meet until 2026, though that will be yet another Irish trip to Chapel Hill.
Somehow this series will include four trips to the southeast (including 2017’s) around one trip to South Bend in 2021. Wherever it is played, this has been a one-sided series.
Notre Dame has won the last four meetings and 20 of the 22 in history. Of course, only those last four have any pertinence presently.