Notre Dame is discontinuing their annual series against Michigan, exercising a three-year out clause.

The last scheduled meeting between the schools will be in 2014.

Notre Dame and Michigan announced this summer that a two-year break is coming in the 2018 and 2019 campaigns, but that they intended to resume the series in the years following.

"The decision to cancel games in 2015-17 was Notre Dame's and not ours," Michigan AD David Brandon said in a release. "We value our annual rivalry with Notre Dame but will have to see what the future holds for any continuation of the series. This cancellation presents new scheduling opportunities for our program and provides a chance to create some new rivalries."

They've played every year since 2002 and regularly since 1978 after not meeting from 1944-77 or 1910-41.