MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Orange Bowl will be the most aptly named bowl of all this year.
Clemson and Tennessee — two schools with orange as their predominant uniform color — are headed to the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30. Clemson earned its place by winning the Atlantic Coast Convention Tennessee was an at-substantial variety.
It is the seventh trip to the Orange Bowl for the Tigers (11-2, No. 7 Higher education Soccer Playoff, No. 10 AP) and the fifth overall look in the recreation for the Volunteers (10-2, No. 6 CFP, No. 6 AP).
“We’ve acquired a team that is enthusiastic,” Clemson mentor Dabo Swinney mentioned Sunday. “Really very pleased of our fellas for how they finished the year. To have an option to engage in in this game is a little something you definitely dream of. … It is an iconic bowl experience.”
It’ll be a matchup of confirmed applications and upstart quarterbacks.
Freshman Cade Klubnik took about for incumbent starter DJ Uiagalelei on Clemson’s third generate of what grew to become the 39-10 win around North Carolina in the ACC title activity on Saturday night and offered an rapid spark, completing his very first 10 passes and major the Tigers to touchdowns on each of their initial three drives with him in the activity.
“A glimpse of our future and what it seems like at Clemson,” Swinney explained. “I’m definitely happy for him, and yeah, he definitely has attained his possibility to go begin.”
For Tennessee, Hendon Hooker — who produced his first profession collegiate start at Really hard Rock Stadium, the home of the Orange Bowl, when he guided Virginia Tech to a win about Miami in 2019 — missed out on a likelihood to make his remaining faculty get started on the exact industry. He was misplaced last month with a knee harm, this means the Volunteers will most likely be turning to Joe Milton III in the Orange Bowl.
Fortunately for Tennessee, it has an Orange Bowl-successful quarterback making the trip to South Florida.
Volunteers mentor Josh Heupel was Oklahoma’s quarterback when the Sooners conquer Florida Condition 13-2 in the Orange Bowl that capped the 2000 time — the BCS countrywide championship match that season.
“I know, obtaining played in it and coached in it two earlier periods, this bowl recreation is as fantastic as it receives,” Heupel stated. “It’s a incredibly unique and unique prospect for our soccer system and one that we could not be much more thrilled to partake in.”
Common OPPONENT
The groups have one frequent opponent this time. And a single prevalent consequence.
If South Carolina hadn’t long gone 2- towards the Tigers and Volunteers this time, the last CFP rankings might have seemed a little bit diverse — maybe to the level where just one of those people groups would be headed to a semifinal recreation and a prospect to perform for the nationwide title.
But the Gamecocks finished their normal period by beating Tennessee and Clemson in consecutive weeks they topped the Volunteers 63-38 on Nov. 19, then finished the Tigers’ 40-recreation dwelling winning streak with a 31-30 victory in a rivalry activity on Nov. 26.
Very ORANGE
It’s not the 1st Orange Bowl amongst orange educational institutions. Perhaps most noteworthy on the all-Orange record: The Florida-Syracuse recreation on Jan. 2, 1999, the past time the bowl game was really performed in the now-demolished Orange Bowl stadium.
But that recreation was not incredibly orange-y. Equally teams wore orange helmets, but the Gators wore white jerseys and blue trousers, though the then-Orangemen — Syracuse wouldn’t grow to be the Orange right up until 2004 — donned blue jerseys and orange trousers.
THE Sequence
Tennessee is 11-6-2 all-time from Clemson. The Tigers received the very last assembly, prevailing 27-14 in the Peach Bowl on Jan. 2, 2004.
The Volunteers have received the final 7 typical-season meetings among the colleges, all among 1920 and 1976. They have been all in Knoxville Clemson has not played host to the Volunteers because a 14- win in 1919.
ACC VS. SEC
The SEC went 6-3 versus the ACC this season, and has gained 20 of the very last 26 conferences in between the conferences.
Clemson has won 11 of its past 15 games from SEC teams. Tennessee is 4-1 in its previous 5 against ACC foes.
NEW Glimpse
Tennessee led the nation in yards (538.1) and points (47.3) for every activity this period. And offensive coordinator Alex Golesh was rewarded for that achievements, with South Florida announcing Sunday that it hired him as its new mentor.
“Losing Alex is a thing that we’re thrilled about,” Heupel reported. “I feel it speaks to the progress inside of our method.”
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