On New Year’s Day, No. 9 Oklahoma State will take on No. 5 Notre Dame in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. It will be the first meeting between the two programs but neither is a stranger to the bowl game in the desert.
Oklahoma State won the 1974 Fiesta Bowl over BYU and the 2012 rendition over Stanford. Notre Dame is 1-4 in the same bowl, beating West Virginia in 1989 and then dropping four straight in 1995, 2001, 2006 and 2016.
But when things kick off on noon central time Saturday, the past won’t matter. On Friday, the Pistols Firing staff convened to discuss our predictions for the NY6 bowl.