Just one day after the Notre Dame football team found out it gets to play Wisconsin, complete with Luke Fickell, to open the 2026 season, Irish fans found out that Marcus Freeman and company will no longer take on Florida State next year. The development is an issue for ND, which relies on its schedule having plenty of big-name teams on its slate in order to make the College Football Playoffs.
Blue and Gold's Eric Hansen was the first to get confirmation that the planned Florida State game was canceled, though there had been whispers for quite a while now.