As the Atlantic Coast Con­fer­ence worked Tues­day to resched­ule anoth­er league game post­poned because of a COVID-19 out­break with­in one of its teams, the Moun­tain West was zero­ing in on a pos­si­ble late Octo­ber start to its foot­ball season.

No. 7 Notre Dame’s game at Wake For­est on Sat­ur­day was post­poned after pos­i­tive COVID-19 tests land­ed 13 Fight­ing Irish play­ers in iso­la­tion and anoth­er 10 in quarantine.

The schools said they were work­ing with the ACC to resched­ule the game. Both teams have off Oct. 3.

Moun­tain West uni­ver­si­ty pres­i­dents moved up a sched­uled Fri­day meet­ing to Thurs­day, a per­son with knowl­edge of the meet­ing told The Asso­ci­at­ed Press. The per­son spoke on con­di­tion of anonymi­ty because the league is not mak­ing its move toward a pos­si­ble return to fall sports public.

It was unclear whether the Moun­tain West pres­i­dents would vote Thurs­day on any pro­pos­als, the per­son said.

Moun­tain West ath­let­ic direc­tors are aim­ing for an Oct. 24 or Oct. 31 start for the foot­ball sea­son. The con­fer­ence is close to an agree­ment that will pro­vide its 12 schools with the capac­i­ty to per­form dai­ly COVID-19 anti­gen tests on its ath­letes, the per­son said.

Moun­tain West Com­mis­sion­er Craig Thomp­son told AP last week the con­fer­ence would not move for­ward on a fall foot­ball sea­son with­out its schools hav­ing the abil­i­ty to test daily.

The Moun­tain West post­poned its fall sports sea­son on Aug. 10, the day before the Big Ten and Pac-12 did the same.

The Pac-12’s CEO Group of pres­i­dents and chan­cel­lors is also meet­ing Thurs­day and is expect­ed to make a deci­sion on whether the con­fer­ence can start its foot­ball sea­son as soon as Hal­loween week­end. The Pac-12 announced ear­ly this month it had acquired dai­ly COVID-19 test­ing for its members.

The Big Ten announced last week it will kick off its foot­ball sea­son the week­end of Oct. 24. The con­fer­ence plans to start test­ing its fall sport ath­letes dai­ly on Sept. 30.

The hope is dai­ly test­ing will pre­vent those who are infect­ed from spread­ing the virus and cut down on the num­ber of peo­ple who end up in quar­an­tine because they were in close con­tact with some­one who test­ed positive.

The con­fer­ences that are cur­rent­ly stag­ing fall foot­ball sea­sons have been test­ing ath­letes at least three times per week, but not daily.

Notre Dame said 94 foot­ball play­ers were test­ed for COVID-19 on Mon­day and of those sev­en were pos­i­tive. Those play­ers were in iso­la­tion along with oth­ers who test­ed pos­i­tive last week.

The school is paus­ing all foot­ball-relat­ed activ­i­ties until fur­ther test­ing is complete.

“We man­aged an increase in pos­i­tiv­i­ty rates in August, and the play­ers han­dled it won­der­ful­ly,” Notre Dame coach Bri­an Kel­ly said. “We knew COVID would present chal­lenges through­out the sea­son, and we’ll always put stu­dent-ath­lete health and safe­ty at the fore­front of our deci­sion mak­ing. We look for­ward to resum­ing team activ­i­ties and get­ting back on the play­ing field.”

Notre Dame (2–0) opened the sea­son with two home games and held sev­er­al play­ers out of last week’s vic­to­ry against South Flori­da with­out explanation.

The Fight­ing Irish are play­ing foot­ball as a mem­ber of a con­fer­ence for the first time this sea­son. Notre Dame usu­al­ly com­petes as an inde­pen­dent in foot­ball and in the ACC in most of its oth­er sports. The school and the con­fer­ence agreed to the arrange­ment to help each get through this pan­dem­ic-dis­rupt­ed season.

Notre Dame-Wake For­est is the 18th game involv­ing major col­lege foot­ball teams to be post­poned or can­celed by COVID-19 issues since Aug. 26 and the third ACC game (North Car­oli­na State at Vir­ginia Tech and Vir­ginia at Vir­ginia Tech were rescheduled).

“I know every­one involved is sad­dened to be unable to play this week­end, but based on the cir­cum­stances it is the right deci­sion,” Wake For­est ath­let­ic direc­tor John Cur­rie said.

Also Tues­day, No. 18 BYU announced that its first next two games will be played with­out fans at LaVell Edwards Sta­di­um in Pro­vo, Utah. The school said health offi­cials in the state had moved Pro­vo from low to mod­er­ate COVID-19 risks, which prompt­ed the switch to no fans for Saturday’s game against Troy and the Oct. 2 game against Louisiana Tech.

BYU had to post­pone its game last week at Army after hav­ing play­ers test pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

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AP Sports Writer Aaron Beard contributed.