After playing in Jacksonville in 2016
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Notre Dame will travel to Jacksonville, Fla., for a neutral site game against Navy in 2016, and now the two teams are poised to travel 3,000 miles west for a meeting two years later.
Only two weeks after the location of the 2016 matchup was made official, news about the location of the 2018 game between the two programs confirmed the validity of a mid-April Associated Press report. The Irish will take on Navy at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego in 2016, the San Diego Bowl Game Association announced Wednesday.
The San Diego Bowl Game Association had inquired about hosting the 2016 game, according to the AP report, but on July 8 the Jacksonville Sports Council announced Notre Dame and Navy will play at EverBank Field on Nov. 5, 2016. Notre Dame, which defeated Navy, 49-39, in 2014, leads the series, 75-12-1. Navy takes on Notre Dame on Oct. 10 for the 89th meeting between the programs.
Notre Dame hosts the Midshipmen at Notre Dame stadium every other year. Navy, meanwhile, hosts Notre Dame in varying locations around the country – and on occasion, across the Atlantic. Recent game sites include Landover, Md., and Dublin, Ireland. Every game away from Notre Dame Stadium in the series between 2001 and 2011 took place in Baltimore, Md., or East Rutherford, N.J.
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Notre Dame will travel to Jacksonville, Fla., for a neutral site game against Navy in 2016, and now the two teams are poised to travel 3,000 miles west for a meeting two years later.
Only two weeks after the location of the 2016 matchup was made official, news about the location of the 2018 game between the two programs confirmed the validity of a mid-April Associated Press report. The Irish will take on Navy at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego in 2016, the San Diego Bowl Game Association announced Wednesday.
The San Diego Bowl Game Association had inquired about hosting the 2016 game, according to the AP report, but on July 8 the Jacksonville Sports Council announced Notre Dame and Navy will play at EverBank Field on Nov. 5, 2016. Notre Dame, which defeated Navy, 49-39, in 2014, leads the series, 75-12-1. Navy takes on Notre Dame on Oct. 10 for the 89th meeting between the programs.
Notre Dame hosts the Midshipmen at Notre Dame stadium every other year. Navy, meanwhile, hosts Notre Dame in varying locations around the country – and on occasion, across the Atlantic. Recent game sites include Landover, Md., and Dublin, Ireland. Every game away from Notre Dame Stadium in the series between 2001 and 2011 took place in Baltimore, Md., or East Rutherford, N.J.