Fiutak released his preseason bowl projections on College Football News this week and has Notre Dame playing a team they meet occasionally now in with their ACC connection.
A team they’ve only played three times previously.
Fiutak’s preseason bowl projection for Notre Dame:
Orange Bowl vs. North Carolina State
December 30, 2022
Fiutak calls for the Irish to head to Miami and take on a North Carolina State program that they’ve only met three times previously, all of which have come since the Gator Bowl on New Year’s Day 2003.
Oddly enough, if Fiutak correctly calls his shot on this one then the Irish and Wolfpack would have met more times in the state of Florida than they have in either Indiana or North Carolina.
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