A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that Michigan and Notre Dame were resuming their football rivalry, agreeing to a home and home series for the 2018 & 2019 seasons. In order for dates to work for both schools, Michigan needed to cancel their scheduled series with Arkansas for those two seasons. However, they also needed help from Rutgers in the 2019 season, asking them to move their scheduled game on October 26th at Michigan to September 28th instead. Rutgers agreed and Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel thanked the school in this article, with the excerpt below:
"While it’s never easy to change football schedules, I appreciate Arkansas’ (athletic director) Jeff Long understanding of the need for this change, as well as Rutgers athletic director Pat Hobbs and Coach (Chris) Ash for agreeing to change the date of our conference game so we could bring this Notre Dame rivalry back to the field," Manuel said.