While much of the focus on Dec. 28 will be on the College Football Playoff semifinals that night, the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (noon ET on ESPN and the ESPN App) will give us quite an appetizer with No. 10 Penn State and No. 17 Memphis.
This will be the third New Year's Six bowl for the Nittany Lions in the past four years, marking an impressive stretch for James Franklin's program. For Memphis, this is uncharted territory.
As has become customary in bowl season, there's some coaching transition ongoing here as well, with Memphis going into the game without former coach Mike Norvell, who left to take over at Florida State.