Washington projected to end up in Music City Bowl

The Washington Huskies could end up playing the other half of the Red River Rivalry in the postseason this year.

With a new conference comes a lot of change. Washington’s move to the Big Ten is just under a month away and it’s starting to get very real as the university has added the conference’s logo to jerseys, the football field, and the basketball court.

Those changes are going to take a lot of getting used to, as will the opportunity to play in different bowl games. In 247Sports’ early bowl projections, they have Jedd Fisch’s Huskies taking on Brent Venables and the Oklahoma Sooners in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tennessee.

If this were to come true and the two teams match up on December 30, 2024, it could be renamed the Justin Harrington or Geirean Hatchett Bowl, as Washington’s new defensive back and Oklahoma’s new offensive lineman spent four years at the other school

Featuring matchups between two teams in their new conferences, bowl season is going to look very different this winter and this is a prime example as the Huskies would have a shot at the other half of the Red River Rivalry during their first season in the SEC.

The Huskies have spent the previous two years meeting Steve Sarkisian and the Texas Longhorns in the postseason, with a 2022 matchup in the Alamo Bowl and a legendary 2023 showdown in the Sugar Bowl that sent the Huskies to the national championship.

If this matchup were to come to fruition and the Huskies were to emerge victorious, it would further cement defensive back Dyson McCutcheon’s claim at the end of the Sugar Bowl that Washington does in fact, run the South.