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This is frustrating for a million reasons by gordonbombay
And ND should have one by now. That being said, literally every major bowl game we have played since the 2000 season has been against the 3 current standard-bearers of the sport — Alabama, Clemson or Ohio State — except for one, and that was against a damn good LSU team that won the national title the next year and had a QB perfectly suited to destroy our biggest weakness.
Obviously you're not going to get a crappy opponent in a major bowl, but we have had no good fortune at all in the draws. No 2015 Iowa, a team we or anybody else worth a damn would have obliterated, or 2011 Virginia Tech (of fucking course it was Michigan to draw the worst at-large selection in BCS history), or, as you alluded to, 2020 Oregon.