2015 Capital One Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CFP Semifinal 82nd Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 31, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season | 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Sun Life Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Miami Gardens, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Favorite | Oklahoma by 4 (62) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Referee | Mike Cannon (Big Ten)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 67,615[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Announcers | Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge and Holly Rowe (ESPN) Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, and Joe Schad (ESPN Radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Orange Bowl game is usually played at night, but with a 4pm starting time, this Orange Bowl game was the first with an afternoon kickoff in 51 years.
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 the series being tied 2–2. The game was a rematch of the previous year's Russell Athletic Bowl, which Clemson won 40–6.
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