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Miami (FL) to open 2025 season vs. Notre Dame, adds Bethune-Cookman

By Kevin Kelley - October 30, 2024
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The Miami Hurricanes will open the 2025 season at home against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and have also added a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has reported.

Miami will host Notre Dame at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on a date to be determined over Labor Day weekend, which means the game could played be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Labor Day Monday (August 28-September 1).

The Miami-Notre Dame game is part of the ACC’s agreement for its member schools to play Notre Dame each season. Miami and Notre Dame are also slated to meet in 2026, 2028, 2031, and 2037 in South Bend, Ind., and in 2032 and 2034 in Miami.

Miami has also added a home game against the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in the FCS. The game will be played on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025 at Hard Rock Stadium.

Miami and Bethune-Cookman last met on the gridiron in 2023. The Hurricanes defeated the Wildcats in that contest, 48-7, and lead the overall series 7-0.

In other non-conference action next season, Miami will host the USF Bulls on Sept. 13 and the Florida Gators on Sept. 20.

In ACC action in 2025, Miami will host Louisville, NC State, Stanford, and Syracuse and will travel to Florida State, Pitt, SMU, and Virginia Tech.

The 2025 season will mark the first time that Miami has played eight regular-season home games since 1971.

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ND will play Miami to open 2025 and then host Texas A&M a couple weeks later. Pretty rigorous start to the season.

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Spencer New England needs Notre Dame recruits just like everybody coast to coast.

Big Ten likes conferences games towards end of regular season.

Since 1926 (98 years), with the exception of four years during World War II, USC has played Notre Dame every other year at the end of the season in California. That is not going to change for the foreseeable future.

Moreover…
Current population of New Egland: 15.2 million…. Current population of California: 39.0 million… New England would need an additional 23.8 million people (which would be more than the current populations of 48 of the 50 states) to reach California in population… QED

Notre Dame hosts USC in 2025 so they won’t be ending the season in LA.

Notre Dame and Stanford don’t have an agreement to play next season (going off what’s here on the site), but each has a schedule opening, so they can still end the season in Palo Alto if they want to continue their series

Notre Dame didn’t always alternate Southern Cal and Stanford on the West Coast at Thanksgiving. Before Stanford became a regular opponent Notre Dame played a warm weather game (usually in a fertile recruiting area). Miami was the opponent quite a few times, also Hawaii. For some reason Air Force as well.

We’ll see about that in ‘25.

It’s not yet apparent that the Stanford series has been extended.

Plus, the ACC arrangement implies ND will play Stanford only twice every seven-ish seasons unless something “un-equal” or unrelated to the arrangement is agreed. (Seven seasons at five game per is 35 games in that span: 17 ACC opponents is a h-&-h, or 34 games, during that time span).

Of course, ND could end up also ending some seasons at Cal, SMU or Miami (which ND largely did every other year from the mid ‘60s thru the late ‘80s).

Phil I am fully flexible with Notre Dame opponent for last regular season game on Thanksgiving weekend in 2025 & Holy War Boston College is on My wish list.