Michigan and Notre Dame Announce Home-And-Home Football Series

The long-running college football rivalry between Michigan and Notre Dame came to a screeching halt last season, but it will resume in 2018 and 2019 with a home-and-home series. 

Brian Hamilton of Sports Illustrated provided the schedule for the upcoming renewal of the feud between the Wolverines and Fighting Irish on Thursday:

Michigan currently leads the all-time series 24-17-1.

Michigan and Notre Dame's rivalry began in 1887, and prior to last season, they had clashed every year from 2002 through 2014.

Per Angelique S. Chengelis of the Detroit News, it is likely that the new schedule between the teams will result in them playing each other in back-to-back years before taking two years off.

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is hopeful the gap doesn't get any bigger than that:

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Ideally, if we're just taking a step back and looking at it, we don't want a gap. It doesn't make sense to have a huge gap. There were other factors that forced that gap, that was the impending move to the ACC, the uncertainty of what the landscape of college football looked like and two ADs that were not on the same page. That has all changed. We have stable ground. We have two coaches who want to play. I think we're moving more toward something that makes sense. 

We want to play.

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The Irish have been perennial contenders during Kelly's tenure, while the Wolverines are very much on the rise toward becoming one of college football's premier programs once again under the leadership of head coach Jim Harbaugh.

Although it hasn't been continuous, Michigan versus Notre Dame is one of the oldest and most storied rivalries in college football.

The fact that both teams are trending toward being in the College Football Playoff picture for a long time to come adds even more intrigue to the conflict, and it should make their meetings in 2018 and 2019 among the most highly anticipated games on the schedule.

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