Your Notre Dame Fighting Irish are headed to Orlando to play the Iowa State Cyclones in the Camping World Bowl. Search your feelings; you know it to be true.
Most years, a 10-2 record would get Notre Dame to a New Year’s Six Bowl. A confluence of factors including the peculiarities of bowl conference tie-ins, a glut of 10+ win teams, and an aquatic abomination in Ann Arbor have the Irish on the outside looking in this year. It’s disappointing, but life often is; sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation.