Since the ACC won’t have a team in the College Football Playoff this year, the league’s bowl picture is a bit muddier as a result. It would be best for everyone other than UNC for Clemson to go ahead and win the league title game and head to the Orange Bowl; otherwise, the Tigers are going to knock some teams down a peg.
NC State will be an attractive option to the Mayo Bowl regardless, for obvious reasons, and that’s where several of the latest projections have the Wolfpack landing.
Brett McMurphy has State playing Iowa in the Mayo Bowl (with an early Iowa -2.