Your Penn State Nittany Lions are 10-2, and ranked inside the top 10. Let’s take a look at some of their potential postseason opponents, pending which bowl game they are selected for.
This is assuming a whole host of things, including the fact that Penn State almost assuredly will not be selected for the Rose Bowl. But in this scenario, the Rose - who traditionally takes the highest ranked non-playoff B1G team - decides that they’d rather not see Ohio State for the third time since 2018, and instead selects Penn State (OSU ends up in the Orange Bowl, which they haven’t been to since 2013).