Notre Dame Football: Ranking Potential Bowl Game Opponents

Finally the biggest draw in the Big XII comes up on our breakdown.  Is Texas back?

In one of the worst kept secrets in college football at this point, we sit and wait to act surprised when on Sunday we will all officially find out that No. 15 Notre Dame will be headed to play a Big XII opponent in the 2019 Camping World Bowl.

That means a trip to Orlando but who the Irish play in the game is still very much up in the air for multiple different reasons.

For one – Oklahoma and Baylor both right now sit at six and seven in the College Football Playoff rankings respectively, with both still being very much alive for a potential New Year’s Six Bowl game berth if they are to fall in Saturday’s conference championship.

That’s important because it would change the Alamo automatically getting whoever loses and instead, give the bowl the chance to pick which of the 5-4 Big XII teams it would like, as Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Texas all finished in a tie for third place after all going 5-4 in conference play.

It got me wondering though – who should Notre Dame fans be rooting for to play?

I get that some Irish fans will have a family or friend that is connected to one of the schools that will make that their obvious choice, but for everyone who doesn’t, what are you rooting for to happen?

A quick look at the potential match-ups, one at a time.

Kansas State

Notre Dame Bowl Projections – Post Week 14

These were the five outlets with six total projections that I was able to find Sunday evening.  Do you have a preference in which Big XII team Notre Dame plays in Orlando, where it appears they’re ultimately headed?

Notre Dame accomplished it’s goal after the debacle in Michigan, going 5-0 in the month of November and finishing 10-2.

Most years a 10-2 Notre Dame team would be playing in a big-time bowl game, one of the New Year’s Six, but in this strange college football season it appears that dream is dead, something I declared a week ago.

After the regular season finale in Week-14 and before the conference championship games this coming weekend, here is where the bowl projection experts have Notre Dame going and who they have them squaring up against:

247Sports:
Brad Crawford – Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State

CBS:
Jerry Palm – Camping World Bowl vs. Texas

College Football News:
Pete Fiutak – Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State

ESPN:
Bonagura – Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State
Schlabach – Camping World Bowl vs. Oklahoma State

The Sporting News:
Bill Bender – Camping World Bowl vs. Kansas State

These were the five outlets with six total projections that I was able to find Sunday evening.  Do you have a preference in which Big XII team Notre Dame plays in Orlando, where it appears they’re ultimately headed?  If so, leave it and the reason why on our new message board!

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