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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notre Dame safety Eilar Hardy has been cleared by the NCAA to return to competition, the director of football media relations&amp;nbsp;Michael Bertsch said this morning.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardy, a redshirt junior, was named in an internal investigation into academic violations by Notre Dame in August, he was one of five players to miss time this season as a result.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardy was the only one of the five allowed to return to the team.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 6-foot-1 safety from Reynoldsburg, Ohio has registered 26 tackles in two seasons for the Fighting Irish, starting two games and appearing in ten.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;Notre Dame's Smith eager to be more of a leader&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After an invitation to return was extended by coach Brian Kelly, Hardy was reinstated to the roster in October; however, he did not return to team practices until after the team's bye week, which followed a 31-27 defeat to Florida State on October 18.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hardy will travel with Notre Dame, 7-1 and ranked 10th by the College Football Playoff Committee, to Tempe to face Arizona State, 7-1 and ranked 9th by the committee, at 3:30 pm ET on Saturday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;Irish, Sun Devils set for epic showdown&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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