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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An East Hartford lawmaker says he helped negotiate a compromise that will allow the University of Connecticut to play an abbreviated football series with Notre Dame, with the games being played out of state.

A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. UConn officials confirmed they would attend.
The universities have previously discussed a 10-game series with UConn's home games being played at Foxboro, Mass., or East Rutherford, N.J. But some state lawmakers were upset that the games wouldn't be played in UConn's publicly funded Rentschler Field in East Hartford.

Rep. Michael Christ, a Democrat whose district includes East Hartford, says the compromise allows a shorter series between the universities. He says a guaranteed number of home football games against other opponents would be at Rentschler.

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