The Notre Dame vs. Michigan football series will continue. As the teams prepare for kickoff tonight in Ann Arbor, Michigan’s athletic department announced two new games in the series. The future home-and-home made official this morning sees a Sept. 3, 2033 game in Michigan followed by a Sept. 2, 2034 game at Notre Dame.

“U-M has a 24-18-1 record all-time against Notre Dame,” Michigan details in the press release. “The Wolverines have a 14-7 mark at Michigan Stadium, a 9-11-1 record at Notre Dame Stadium and defeated the Irish by a 23-0 score in Toledo during the 1902 season.”

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh teased a continuation this week when asked about Notre Dame, saying "I think there's some discussion about it. It would be good."

Michigan and Notre Dame kick off tonight as ranked teams in need of a victory. Michigan has losses against Wisconsin and Penn State with a hunger for rebound and some momentum.

“Anytime you don’t win. … For me, I’m trying to do everything I can, and I know everybody in that locker room and in this office is doing everything they can, because we hate losing,” quarterback Shea Patterson said after the loss to Penn State. “But yeah, it really doesn’t matter how I played. All that matters in the end result and we didn’t win,”

Notre Dame has one loss on the schedule thanks to a road trip to face Georgia last month. To keep College Football Playoff hopes alive, the Fighting Irish need a statement against what is likely the last ranked team on the schedule. Notre Dame ranks No. 8 in last week's AP Top 25 with a 5-1 overall record. Without a conference championship game, Notre Dame faces Virginia Tech, Duke, Navy, Boston College and Stanford to conclude the regular season.

“It's a really good defense,” coach Brian Kelly said. “Don Brown does a great job with them. It seems like their offense is really finding themselves in terms of their production and it should be a great matchup between two really good football teams. We got to go on the road again, handle all the distractions there and look for a classic matchup between two teams that have great history and tradition of playing each other."

The news comes one day after Michigan canceled a home-and-home series with UCLA for 2022 and 2023.

U-M informed UCLA of its decision to terminate the series on June 13, according to release in order to balance the schedule with a seven-game home schedule.

"On June 13, 2019, Michigan informed UCLA that it was terminating the series scheduled to be played in 2022 and 2023 in order to balance the schedule with a seven-game home slate in both seasons," the release states. "The Wolverines still have one game to fill in each of those two seasons."