Kelly says that the way that the schools in conference break up their schedules with easy games may warrant a look for Notre Dame, which plays five ACC teams per year and has numerous rivals to fit in. From ESPN:
“We didn’t have that breather game the week before one of our rivals,” Kelly told ESPN. “There’s some other conferences that have it built in, and they do it for a reason, and it works out well for them. That’s really an institutional decision, and we’re going to have to sit down, we’re going to have to look at it hard. We thought the 13th [data] point was really important, right? But that doesn’t seem to be that important anymore.
“It seems like the goal posts shift and move a little bit as it comes to how you get in, and this schedule is really, really difficult.”