AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips made his thoughts clear on where the league stands regarding Clemson’s upcoming 12-game football series against Notre Dame.

On May 6, the Tigers and Irish officially agreed to start the series beginning in 2027 and running through 2038. Five of those meetings, however, were already scheduled through the league’s agreement with Notre Dame. The other seven are not and Phillips made it pretty clear those seven meetings with the Tigers have nothing to do with the original agreement.

“I have been pretty clear that the rotation is the rotation and that is five games every year,” Phillips said to The Clemson Insider and a small group of reporters as the 2025 ACC Spring Meetings came to a close at the Ritz Carlton on Wednesday. “The Clemson-Notre Dame piece of it is not a part of that rotational five.”

“The ones that had already been announced, that is part of this rotation that we have across 16 other schools beside Clemson,” he added.

Phillips was asked if Notre Dame was on the same page with the ACC and if there was any conflict between the Irish and the league on the matter.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “What I would say to you is that coming up is a start of a two-game rotation within the five and then whatever Notre Dame and Clemson decided after that, they are working on that piece of it.”

From the ACC’s perceptive, only the 2027, ’28, ’31, ’34 and ’37 Clemson-Notre Dame games are a part of the agreement between the ACC and Notre Dame.

The other seven games in the series, according to the commissioner, are completely independent from the original deal with the league. In other words, when Notre Dame plays the Tigers in 2029, ’30, ’32, ’33, ’35, ’36 and ’38 the Irish will also be playing five other ACC teams.