Navy-Notre Dame football game won't be played in 2020

The streak is over.

The longest continuous intersectional rivalry in college football is ending at 93 games.

Navy will not play Notre Dame in 2020.

FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.

BUT ITNOT HAPPENING THIS YEAR.

THEGAME WONFIRST TIME SINCE 1927.

ITTHE LATEST COVID CHANGE INCOLLEGE FOOTBALL.

WMAR-2 NESHAWN STEPNER HAS MORThe streak is over.

Thelongest continuousintersectional rivalry incollege football is ending at93 games.

Navy will not playNotre Dame in 2020.

KenNiumatalolo, Navy Head Coach:Initially that was a downerbecause it was a big game forour program.

We love playingthem.

The move, forced by theCOVID-19 pandemic and theAtlantic Coast Conferencescheduling mandates of theFighting Irish.

Notre Dameplaying an ACC schedule forthe first time.

The game*wa*to be played for the firsttime in Annapolis, moved fromIreland to Navy- Marine CorpsMemorial Stadium.

Niumatalolo:We went from the down of notplaying Notre Dame here to,okay, where do we go fromhere?

Where they went isscheduling Brigham Young totake Notre Damewill host BYU in primetime.Labor Day Monday, Septemberat 8pm.

Niumatalolo: We wantedto play a good football teamthat we knew that they weredoing all in their power tokeep their guys safe.

Thatthey are testing.

That theirprotocol was strict.

I knewBYU would be that.Preparations for the Cougarsand the 2020 season begin onFriday.

Preseason trainingcamps opening around thecountry.

Niumatalolo says hisstaff is still trying tofigure out how to hold a campin a world of coronavirusconcerns.

Niumatalolo: Try tospread out our practices,spread out our people.

Wehaving to be really creativeon our drills.

The leader ofthe Mids says playing collegefootball can uplift ournation.

But it can not come atthe sacrifice of his players.Niumatalolo: If we can keeppeople safe that we can bringback a national pastime tolift peoplespeak, and keep people safe,wewe canshut it down.

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