Cancel your plans for Nov. 11, 2034.
Ditto for Sept. 27, 2031, and maybe the days before and after, if you're the traveling type.
Washington and Notre Dame announced a home-and-home series on Tuesday for those future dates, with the Huskies visiting the Fighting Irish in 2031 and Notre Dame visiting Seattle in 2034.
UW hasn't yet scheduled any other nonconference games for either season.
The schools have met eight times, most recently in 2009, with Notre Dame winning every game. In their last meeting, the Irish prevailed 37-30 in overtime against first-year coach Steve Sarkisian and quarterback Jake Locker in South Bend.
Washington and Notre Dame last faced each other at Husky Stadium in 2008, a 33-7 Irish victory. The following Monday, UW announced the firing of coach Tyrone Willingham.
The Irish easily won both ends of a 2004-05 home-and-home, and hammered the Huskies 54-20 in South Bend in 1996. The year before, Notre Dame scored 15 points in the final 1:24 to escape Husky Stadium with a 29-21 win (across town, Edgar Martinez hit a grand slam and drove in seven runs in the Seattle Mariners' comeback victory over the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the ALDS).
The schools' first two meetings came in the 1948 and 1949, first in South Bend and then in Seattle. Notre Dame won the first 46-0 and the second 27-7.
As part of the College Football Playoff expanding to 24 teams beginning in 2027, Power 4 schools will be required to play 10 regular-season games against Power 4 opponents or Notre Dame (i.e. Big Ten teams must schedule one such nonconference game each year).
It's not yet clear whether Washington will have to make changes to its 2027 and 2028 nonconference schedules, which do not include any Power 4 teams; an exemption for one or both years is a possibility. UW's current series with Washington State expires after the 2028 season, and the Huskies have a home-and-home scheduled with Tennessee for 2029 (Knoxville) and 2030 (Seattle).
The Huskies also have a home game scheduled against Boise State in 2029, a home game against Hawaii scheduled for 2030, and a home game against San Jose State in 2033.
— Christian Caple, On Montlake
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