As we’ve been looking at bowl projections since even before the start of the 2020 college football season we’ve seen Notre Dame headed to a few interesting places but most recently it’s been a pretty consistent guess by most that the Orange Bowl would be where the Irish wound up.
That’s not the case anymore according to 247Sports as they released their latest round of bowl projections and have Notre Dame headed to a familiar destination after the inclusion of the Big Ten and Pac-12 to the projections for the first time.
A year ago Notre Dame beat up Iowa State of the Big 12 in the Camping World Bowl and that site is the same place 247Sports has them headed again, even though the game has been changed to the Cheez-It Bowl.
247Sports Bowl Projection for September 30:
Cheez-It Bowl
Camping World Stadium
Orlando, Florida
Notre Dame vs. Texas
Perhaps the notable part here isn’t that Notre Dame isn’t projected to go to the New Year’s Six but that currently undefeated Texas isn’t been seen as the winner of the Big 12 quite yet.
With that said, with hopes of the College Football Playoff at best and the New Year’s Six at worst, I’m guessing most Notre Dame fans would be pretty disappointed if the season ended with a second straight trip to Orlando.