The Bowl Selection Show 2015 on ESPN today unveils your College Football Bowl Games, your final College Football Rankings, the CFP Top 25, and the College Football Playoff Schedule.
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Oklahoma slipped one spot to No. 4.
The No. 1-ranked team by the committee will play against the No. 4 team in a semifinal while No. 2 and No. 3 will meet in the other semifinal game. There are 4 places out there within the College Football Playoff, & unsurprisingly exclusively 4 teams received consideration from the Playoff Projection panel following Sat.’s conference championship games. An Alabama win likely clinches a Playoff spot for the Crimson Tide.
The nine ACC selections give the conference a total of 31 bowl berths over the past three seasons.
Clemson controls its own destiny.
ACC Coastal Division champion North Carolina, Duke, Louisville, Miami, NC State and Pitt are also bound for holiday bowls. It could come down to the strength of their losses in that scenario as they have similar schedules, so it may depend on if Michigan State wins the Big Ten or not.
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Stanford plays USC in the Pac 12 Championship Game. But North Carolina will need some help: first they have to win, secondly they need Alabama and Stanford to lose. The Orange Bowl appearance will be the third in five years for the Tigers, who defeated Ohio State in their most recent trip two years ago.
