It was a wild night in Charlotte in the ACC Championship between Clemson and SMU. Clemson raced out to an early lead and it looked like they were going to win t
he game by a landslide when it was 31-14 in the 4th quarter. SMU stormed back to tie it until Clemson had a great kickoff return and then kicked a game-winning 56-yard field goal to give Dabo Swinney and the Tigers yet another ACC Championship. Clemson is now going to the College Football Playoff and the debate between SMU and Alabama and who should be in is going to dominate the next 12 hours.
The decision the playoff comittee makes will have a trickle down effect to the rest of the ACC, including Georgia Tech. It felt like for much of the day, the bowl projections were narrowing down and assum that only one of either SMU or Clemson got in, but the way that the ACC Championship unfolded, there is a decent chance that SMU gets in alongside Clemson. If that does happen, that will shake up the ACC bowl picture.
and had the Yellow Jackets facing Arkansas in the Birmingham Bowl and that was a bowl projection that seemed to be gaining some steam. If SMU gets in the playoff, this seems unlikely to happen, but it is not impossible.had a different projection. He projected Georgia Tech to go to Shreveport, LA to play in the Independence Bowl vs Army. Army is facing Tulane in the AAC Championship game this weekend. This would be the fifth-ever matchup between the two programs and the first since 2007.
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