Release from the ACC:
Top-ranked Clemson’s selection as the No. 1 seed in the 2015 College Football Playoff highlighted a Sunday in which nine of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 14 football members – along with Notre Dame – secured spots in postseason bowl games.
The nine ACC selections give the conference a total of 31 bowl berths over the past three seasons. This marks the 15thconsecutive year that at least six ACC teams received postseason berths. The ACC ranks second among all conferences with 95 total bowl bids since 2005.
The ACC champion Tigers (13-0) will face No. 4 seed Oklahoma (11-1) in the Capital One Orange Bowl at 4 p.m. on New Year’s Eve in one of two CFP semifinal games. No. 2 Alabama (12-1) meets No. 3 Michigan State (12-1) in the other semifinal in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. The winners will meet for the College Football Playoff National Championship at 8:30 p.m. ET onMonday, January 11, at Glendale, Arizona.
With Clemson’s selection, the ACC has placed a team in the four-team College Football Playoff in each of its first two years of existence. 2014 ACC champion Florida State landed the No. 3 seed last season.
A pair of ACC schools will continue the two longest current Division I bowl streaks in the nation, as Florida State (34th straight year) and Virginia Tech (23rd straight) confirmed their postseason destinations.
ACC Coastal Division champion North Carolina, Duke, Louisville, Miami, NC State and Pitt are also bound for holiday bowls.
No. 9 Florida State (10-2) will face No. 18 Houston (12-1) in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta (Noon, ESPN) on New Year’s Eve. North Carolina (11-2), No. 10 in the final CFP rankings, will face No. 17 Baylor (9-3) in the Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando on Dec. 29 (5:30 p.m., ESPN).
Joining Clemson, Florida State and North Carolina from the ACC will be Duke (New Era Pinstripe Bowl), Miami (Hyundai Sun Bowl), NC State (Belk Bowl), Louisville (Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl), Pitt (Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman) and Virginia Tech (Camping World Independence Bowl).
The Sports Inquirer 
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