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This will be the eighth meeting between Oklahoma and Florida State; the Sooners lead the all-time series, 6-1. It will also be the Sooners and Seminoles' fifth bowl game against each other, preceded by the 1965 Gator Bowl, 1980 Orange Bowl, 1981 Orange Bowl and the 2001 Orange Bowl (the latter of which saw Oklahoma win the national championship).[4]
Florida State started the season hoping to at least make a bowl game after having gone 5-7 (4-4 ACC) in 2021. They had an easy win over Duquesne to start the season. The next week, they faced LSU in the first-ever edition of the Louisiana Kickoff, held at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. They won 24-23 after they successfully blocked an extra point attempt from LSU that would have sent the game into overtime. They took a bye week before defeating their next two opponents, Louisville and Boston College, the latter in front of a sellout crowd. They started out 4-0 and entered the rankings at #23 before suffering 3 consecutive losses to ACC Atlantic foes #22 Wake Forest, #14 NC State, and #4 Clemson. However, they rebounded by handily defeating Georgia Tech, in-state rival Miami, Syracuse, and Louisiana, and defeated their other in-state rival, Florida, for the first time since 2017. They will enter the bowl with a record of 9-3 (5-3 ACC) and a 2nd place finish in the ACC Atlantic, as two of the teams they lost to—NC State and Wake Forest—both suffered conference losses of their own after beating Florida State; this allowed Florida State to place ahead of them in the division standings.
Oklahoma completed their regular season with an overall 6–6 record, 3–6 in Big 12 games. After starting the season with three non-conference wins, The Sooners had three consecutive conference losses before winning their first conference game by beating Kansas. Oklahoma went on to finish the season with wins against Iowa State and Oklahoma State and further loses to Baylor, West Virginia, and Texas Tech.
