The "biggest remaining unknowns" about Notre Dame's 12-game regular-season football schedule "encompass the two games against Pac-12 teams (Oct. 10 at home against Stanford and Nov. 28 at USC), and three neutral-site games slated to take place in NFL stadiums," according to Eric Hansen of the SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE. Those games are Sept. 26 against Wake Forest at Bank of America Stadium; Oct. 3 against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field; and a Nov. 14 matchup against Georgia Tech at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Pac-12 teams still are "toying with a conference-only schedule." The possible move out of the NFL stadiums "isn’t so much a safety issue as it was in the decision to move the season opener with Navy from Dublin, Ireland, to Annapolis, Md." Economics "may drive the NFL stadium outcomes." Hansen writes it "would be fiscally irresponsible" of Notre Dame "not to explore on-campus options" for those games. Hansen: "Does it make sense to go to an NFL stadium that seats 60,000, 70,000, 80,000 and have 25,000 or 30,000 in it? And impact the gate to a level where you can’t afford to be there, because it becomes a losing proposition?" (SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE, 6/10).
