Apples and oranges, but they do it just like ND, UCONN's late season schedules thru 2029 - the furthest out released (hmm... maybe a reason) includes ONE non ACC P4. ND has three in the next 10 years. BTW Navy isn't a P4, and they play ND every year because the Navy saved ND from bankruptcy in the 40s during the war - and ND promised to play them every year as payback - got nothing to do with current scheduling. Do a little research versus your feeling that ND will get almost exactly the late season games they want - they will eventually get games, many teams want to play them no doubt - but ND doesn't want to play Temple, Rice, FIU, UMass, Delaware, Old Dominion, Liberty and James Madison - all on UCONNs schedule the next few years. Heck, VT fans complain about playing a couple of those in our OOC. NDs agreement to the ACC deal wasn't just for other sports - it also makes their Oct/Nov FB scheduling for P4 teams easier - but like always they want their cake and eat it too... they try and get other P4 games, and sure they would rather play a late season B10 or SEC game (who are playing more conference games than they use to) instead of Wake or Duke - most years they would rather play fewer ACC FB games - while still having the flexability to use them if needed to fill out a schedule, that's called negotiation. ** Edited by RTFC at 5/31/2026, 1:42:37 AM