CLEMSON – Next stop, Miami.
No. 1 Clemson will battle No. 4 Clemson on New Year’s Eve in the Capital One Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium. The trip will be Clemson’s sixth trip to the Orange Bowl and the Tigers are 3-2 in the previous five appearances.
The Orange Bowl has been the site of Clemson’s biggest football triumph and the program’s most disappointing defeat. Clemson claimed the 1981 National Championship with a 22-15 win over Nebraska in the 1982 game, but lost 70-33 to West Virginia in the 2012 game.
A look back at Clemson’s Orange Bowl history:
1951 Orange Bowl – Clemson 15, Miami (FL) 14
Clemson won its first appearance, 15-14, in the 1951 Orange Bowl at the end of the 1950 season over Miami (FL).