Oklahoma football: CFN projects where 2023 Sooners will go bowling

Going to a postseason bowl game has become a fixed part of the Oklahoma football season for the past 24 years, including four times in the BCS national championship game and four College Football Playoff appearances.

Oklahoma’s 24 consecutive bowl appearances is the second longest active streak among FBS teams. Only Georgia has a longer active streak at 26 straight seasons. Sixteen of the Sooners’ 24 consecutive bowl games have been venues now considered part of the New Year’s Six bowl rotation (Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, Fiesta Bowl).

The Sooners should be in position this season to extend their consecutive bowl appearances to 25. The only question is where Team 129 — as head coach Brent Venables likes to refer to this year’s team signifying Oklahoma’s 129th football season — will be heading in the postseason.

The staff at College Football News has issued a preseason projection of where and who Oklahoma will be playing in the 2023 bowl season.

CFN predicts the Sooners will represent the Big 12 as the conference’s No. 2 team and will play in the Valero Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28 against UCLA out of the Pac-12.

Here is what CFN predicts for the other Big 12 bowl teams

(Where the teams fall in the Big 12 bowl pecking order in parentheses)

Cotton Bowl Classic, Dec. 29, Texas (1) vs. Oregon

Pop Tarts Bowl, Dec. 28, Kansas State (3) vs. Miami

TaxAct Texas Bowl, Dec. 27, TCU (4) vs. Texas A&M

AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Dec. 29, Baylor (5) vs. South Carolina

Guaranteed Rate Bowl, Dec. 26, Texas Tech (6) vs. Nebraska

Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, Dec. 16, BYU (7) vs. North Carolina

SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Dec. 26, Kansas (8) vs. Missouri

Frisco Bowl, Dec. 19, Cincinnati vs. Air Force

RoofClaim.com Boca Raton Bowl, Dec. 21, UCF vs. Michigan State

Birmingham Bowl, Dec. 23, Iowa State vs. Auburn