Notre Dame & Clemson have struck a 12-year annual football scheduling deal, sources tell @YahooSports. The series works independently of the ACC structure but does count as one of ND’s five ACC games. Irish also expected to play FSU & Miami more regularly.

Clemson and Notre Dame will meet every year as permanent opponents beginning in 2027. Here are five games that birthed a Clemson-Notre Dame rivalry.

Notre Dame, which remains fiercely independent in football, plays five ACC opponents each fall in a scheduling arrangement that dates to 2014.