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Dec 04, 2022

Orange Bowl Central: Football vs. Tennessee

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THE 89TH CAPITAL ONE ORANGE BOWL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2022 •  8 PM ET
HARD ROCK STADIUM

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CLEMSON VS. TENNESSEE - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

  • Clemson, champions of the ACC for the seventh time in eight years, will make its seventh all-time Orange Bowl appearance and its first since appearing the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Orange Bowl in 2015. The Tigers are 4-2 all-time in the Orange Bowl.
  • Clemson made its first Orange Bowl appearance on New Year’s Day in 1951, culminating an undefeated 9-0-1 season with a 15-14 win against Miami thanks to Sterling Smith’s go-ahead safety late in the contest.
  • The Tigers returned six years later, a 27-21 defeat by Colorado to conclude a 7-2-2 ACC title-winning season. Clemson later secured its first national championship at the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1, 1982, when top-ranked Clemson downed Nebraska, 22-15, to finish a 12-0 season.
  • The Tigers have made three Orange Bowl appearances under Head Coach Dabo Swinney.
  • Clemson collected an Orange Bowl berth against West Virginia in 2011 after earning Clemson’s first ACC championship in 20 years. The Tigers then earned Orange Bowl victories during the 2013 and 2015 seasons, including a 40-35 win against Ohio State to end the 2013 season and a 37-17 win against Oklahoma in 2015 to earn the program’s first berth in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game.
  • The game will be the 20th all-time meeting between Clemson and Tennessee. Though the teams met 16 times from 1901-44, including 10 times in a 16-season span from 1901-16, this year’s postseason contest will be only the fourth meeting between the Tigers and Volunteers since Clemson joined the ACC as a charter member in 1953.
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