Iowa State will be traveling to Orlando in late December after being selected for the Camping World Bowl on Sunday following a seven-win regular season.

Iowa State, which will appear in a bowl game for the third-straight season for only the second time in program history (2000-2002), will take on No. 15 Notre Dame in Orlando. The Camping World Bowl is scheduled for Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. CT on ABC, a lead-in to the College Football Playoff semifinals later that day. After Oklahoma was selected for the College Football Playoff and Baylor earned the Big 12’s Sugar Bowl bid, the Camping World Bowl picked Iowa State with the conference’s second selection after the Alamo Bowl picked Texas.

The matchup between Iowa State and Notre Dame will be the first-ever game between the schools. With No. 15 Notre Dame in the final College Football Playoff rankings after going 10-2, it will mark the third-straight season in which the Cyclones have faced a ranked team in their bowl game. Iowa State has faced three ranked opponents so far in 2019, going 1-2 in those games.

Iowa State’s bowl selection Sunday comes after a 7-5 regular season that included several close calls. The Cyclones lost four games by one score, eventually equating to a third-place tie in the Big 12 for the second-straight year. In Orlando, Iowa State will be attempting to reach the eight-win mark for the third consecutive season, something accomplished only in 1976-78.

There will be plenty more on the line at the Camping World Bowl. Sophomore quarterback Brock Purdy will enter the bowl game with 3,760 passing yards this season, just 240 yards shy of being the only 4,000-yard passer in school history. Freshman running back Breece Hall, meanwhile, is 158 yards away from becoming a 1,000-yard rusher, even while not becoming the starter until October. Much of the starting lineups Iowa State will run out in December are expected to return to Ames in 2020, another important aspect of the bowl game experience.

Iowa State is 4-10 in bowl game since 1971, including 1-1 under Matt Campbell. The Cyclones lost last season’s Alamo Bowl to Washington State after beating Memphis in the Liberty Bowl in 2017, which was their first bowl appearance since 2012. The December matchup will mark only the second time Iowa State has appeared in bowl games in three-straight seasons, a school record. The Cyclones have never been selected to a bowl game in four consecutive years.