Notre Dame football game against Wake Forest rescheduled for Dec. 12

Notre Dame’s unintended pause in its football season will result in back-to-back open dates.

Saturday’s ACC road game at Wake Forest has been rescheduled for Dec. 12 after an outbreak in COVID-19 cases within the Irish team this week prompted Notre Dame officials Tuesday to put practices on hold and postpone the game itself.

Both teams had a common open date of Oct. 3, but with seventh-ranked Notre Dame having 13 players in isolation and another 10 in quarantine, the turnaround for the Irish to have adequate time and players to prep for that weekend also proved to be too short.

The ACC championship game is scheduled for either Dec. 12 or Dec. 19. If Notre Dame or Wake Forest would be in contention for the game then it would likely be moved to the later date.

The next game on the revised schedule has Notre Dame hosting Florida State on Oct. 10.

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St. Joseph County deputy health officer Mark Fox, who has been a consultant for Notre Dame on such matters, told WSBT-TV’s Max Lewis that another round of testing for the Irish roster will take place Wednesday.

Monday’s round of COVID-19 testing for 94 players revealed seven new positive tests.

The day prior, the program announced that 10 players sat out Saturday’s 52-0 win over South Florida at Notre Dame Stadium due to four positive tests results and six others placed in quarantine from contact tracing from last week's Tuesday-through-Friday window.