Undefeated Clemson earns No. 1 seed in College Football Playoff
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The four teams that will compete in the second College Football Playoff were announced Sunday, and there are no real surprises.
In the Orange Bowl, No. 1 Clemson, the only undefeated Football Bowl Subdivision team, will face No. 4 Oklahoma. Also on New Year's Eve, No. 2 Alabama will take on No. 3 Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl. The winners will meet in Arizona for the Jan. 11 championship game.
Just as in 2014's inaugural playoff, each team picked this year won its Power 5 conference.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
