The Pac-12 dissolved in 2024, but one vestige of the former conference remains relevant to the college football season unfolding this fall: the bowl lineup. The legacy teams are locked into the postseason arrangement that existed prior to collapse.

Each week, the Hotline will project and assess the postseason status for all 12 teams. Last week’s projections can be found here.

Few games will impact the Pac-12 bowl lineup more than a hotly anticipated matchup Saturday morning that’s on the other side of the country and doesn’t involve any of the 12 legacy teams.

Notre Dame is visiting Pittsburgh in what amounts to the Power Four’s last stand against the Irish’s charge for an at-large berth in the College Football Playoff.

The outcome will resonate in Eugene, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Cit

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