There’s only one thing that could come between Chris Love and Kansas University’s second bowl game in three years — his wife.

But if KU lands a spot in the Fort Worth Bowl, as Coach Mark Mangino has suggested, Love will find a way to be there.

“I’m going to have to do some planning,” said Love, a Lawrence resident and KU fan who scheduled his wedding last year around KU’s football schedule.

Love is among the Jayhawk fans beginning to scheme about how to fit a bowl game trip into their holiday schedules. Official word on whether KU will play Dec. 23 in the Fort Worth Bowl should come this weekend.

“KU will be playing in a bowl — it’s just a matter of which one,” said Bob Burda, the Big 12 Conference’s assistant commissioner for communications. There are several possibilities, he said.

But some football fans already are calling KU to get the scoop.

“We’re telling them they’ll know as soon as we know,” said Jim Marchiony, KU associate athletic director. “We’ll just have to wait and see.”

Kevin Kane and Charlton Keith celebrate Iowa State's missed field goal attempt in overtime, setting up KU's win on Saturday. The win made KU eligible for a bowl game.

Kent Houk, vice president of Lawrence-based Travellers Inc., said the travel agency had received a few calls inquiring about travel options, but he expected more inquiries next week.

“They’ll start calling on Monday,” Houk said.

Jayhawk football fanPete Gaines said the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, Fla., where KU played in 2003 when it was called the Tangerine Bowl, would be nice from a tourist’s perspective, but he doesn’t care where the bowl is.

“I will follow them to the end of the Earth to see a bowl game.”