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PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) — No. 23 West Virginia (9-3) has accepted an invite to the Orange Bowl as the Big East champion and will play Atlantic Coast Conference champion No. 15 Clemson (10-3).
After beating Virginia Tech 38-10 in the ACC championship, Clemson entered the Orange Bowl against West Virginia as a three-point favorite. “What I remember about that game is going into it ...
First things first: the West Virginia Mountaineers became the first team to ever score 70 points in a bowl game, trashing the Clemson Tigers, 70-26, in the 2012 Orange Bowl. Seventy points!
14 Clemson (10-3 ... s no doubt about that,” said WVU coach Dana Holgorsen. The two young coaches are among the main attractions in the only current bowl game named for a piece of fruit.
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 ...
The Orange Bowl is one of the five games of the Bowl Championship Series, but its 2012 matchup simply does not live up to BCS standards. At least the game does feature two conference champions ...
Clemson kept pace for a while, leading 17-14 after one period. It was the highest-scoring first quarter and first half in Orange Bowl history. West Virginia went ahead for the first time early in ...
One of the great things about being home to a major college football bowl game is the opportunity ... an opening line for the fan from West Virginia and Clemson. This ignorance makes us pretty ...
Funny. That's pretty much the same approach that Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was taking when the Tigers came to the Orange Bowl to cap the 2011 season. The game was a rout; West Virginia simply ...
It will be Clemson’s fourth Orange Bowl under coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers lost to West Virginia 70-33 in 2011, defeated Ohio State 40-35 in 2013 and beat Oklahoma 37-17 in 2015. Swinney ...
Potter enters the Orange Bowl having scored in 53 consecutive ... and lost to Colorado 27-21 on Jan. 1, 1957, and West Virginia 70-33 on Jan. 4, 2012. Clemson has a 26-22 bowl record.
The West Virginia Mountaineers were tough to slow down, and only the Orange Bowl ... first Orange Bowl appearance and improved to 3-0 in Bowl Championship Series games. Clemson (10-4) lost playing ...