As we’ve seen in the last few days the college football season is very much up in the air as conferences continue to announce they’re only playing themselves this fall.
We don’t know much about what the next college football season will look like but we do know it will be something none of us have ever seen before.
With that preface, 247Sports recently released their July edition of bowl projections and whatever formula they used for schedules, they have Notre Dame headed to what has been a fairly regular destination of late.
It falls short of the College Football Playoff that Notre Dame fans clearly desire but it’s still a marquee game against a marquee opponent. The projection you ask?
Fiesta Bowl vs. Oregon
Although the specific bowl game doesn’t thrill me since we’ve all seen them already play there a bunch, the match-up certainly does. Oregon enters the year with high expectations after a Rose Bowl win and top five finish last season. If it’s not the College Football Playoff, it doesn’t get much better than this for the Irish.
It would be Notre Dame’s sixth ever appearance in the Fiesta Bowl which would move it to the second most common bowl game in Irish history as they’ve played in the Cotton Bowl eight times. Notre Dame has also played in the Orange Bowl five times to date.
The game, as impossible as it may feel to happen this season, would mark just the third meeting between Notre Dame and Oregon. The Irish blanked the Ducks 41-0 in their 1976 meeting in South Bend before the two played to a 13-13 tie in Eugene, in 1982.