Kickoff Time Set For UM-Notre Dame Game
CBS Miami: The time has been set for one of Miami's most anticipated games of the season.
It was announced Thursday that the Hurricanes will face host Notre Dame on October 29th at 3:30 p.m. The game will be televised on NBC and broadcast live on Miami Sports Radio 560 WQAM.
The roots of the Miami-Notre Dame rivalry runs deep and the contest is one that'll be hyped up with plenty of pregame montages featuring highlights from previous matchups between the teams.
Older, die-hard fans from both programs will be able to dust off their "Catholics vs. Convicts" shirts – a colloquialism attached to the 1998 matchup between the two schools.
Ironically, none of the players on either team were even alive the last time the Fighting Irish hosted the Hurricanes. The 2016 game will be UM's first visit back to South Bend, Indiana since 1990.
The game against Notre Dame will be the endcap of a four-game stretch, which is sure to be the Hurricanes' toughest portion of the season. Miami will play four games in 22 days. Beginning October 8th, Miami will host rival Florida State; welcome North Carolina in a week later; travel to Virginia Tech just five days later and end it with the trip to Notre Dame.
This season's game will also be a marquee quarterback matchup. Miami's Brad Kaaya has gotten plenty of praise this offseason and has been tabbed as a potential top-three pick in next year's NFL Draft. Notre Dame dual-threat signal caller DeShone Kizer (6-foot-4, 230 pounds) returns for his junior season after accounting for 31 total touchdowns in 2016.
Still, UM will be looking to end a three-game losing streak to the Fighting Irish in 2016. Notre Dame defeated Miami in 1990, again in the 2010 Sun Bowl and in a 2012 regular season game at Chicago's Soldier Field.
The 1989 Orange Bowl game was last time UM got the best of Notre Dame.
The month of October – which also features an October 1st meeting with Georgia Tech – is the reason why Mark Richt was brought back to Miami.
