2015 Orange Bowl
| 2015 Capital One Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CFP Semifinal at the Orange Bowl 82nd Orange Bowl |
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2015 Orange Bowl Logo
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| Date | December 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Sun Life Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Miami Gardens, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Oklahoma by 3½ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Mike Cannon (Big Ten) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 67,615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ESPN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers |
Brad Nessler (Play-by-Play) Todd Blackledge (Analyst) Holly Rowe (Sideline) Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, & Joe Schad (ESPN Radio) |
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| Nielsen ratings | (15.6 Million viewers) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2015 Capital One Orange Bowl was a college football bowl game that was played on December 31, 2015 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The 82nd Orange Bowl was a College Football Playoff semifinal with the winner of the game competing against the winner of the 2015 Cotton Bowl: Alabama Crimson Tide football in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, which took place at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. It was one of the 2015–16 bowl games that concluded the 2015 FBS football season.
The game matched the undefeated and number 1 overall team in the nation, the Clemson Tigers, against the 1 loss Oklahoma Sooners.
This was the fifth overall meeting between these two teams, with Clemson winning the series 3–2. The game was a rematch of the previous year's Russell Athletic Bowl, which Clemson won 40–6.
The two participants for the game were two of the semifinalists which were the Clemson Tigers and Oklahoma Sooners.
Clemson began the season hoping to improve on their 10-3 record from last year. In the preaseason poll, the Tigers ranked number 12, and to kick off the season, won their first 3 games. In their 4th game, they faced the undefeated and 6th ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish, with both teams having playoff aspirations. Despite leading for most of the game, the game came down to a key 2 point conversion stop by Clemson, essentially sealing the game for the Tigers. The Tigers then won 4 more games to finally reach the number 1 ranking in all of the polls, just in time for a huge matchup with the defending ACC Champions, the Florida State Seminoles. Despite losing for most of the first half, Clemson came back in the 2nd half to win the game, 23-13. The Tigers then won the rest of their games, including a matchup with North Carolina in the ACC Championship game. Clemson won the game 45-37, to give Clemson their first ACC Championship since 2011.
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