Jaden Mickey 5-Star QB Commit Stuns College Football World with Decision to Flip to Clemson tiger football Rejected Alabama, Auburn and Tennessee vols

Jaden Mickey 5-Star QB Commit Stuns College Football World with Decision to Flip to Clemson tiger football Rejected Alabama, Auburn and Tennessee vols…

Will Clemson get a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff?

Or will the Tigers be playing an on-campus road game in two weeks?

That’s the looming question surrounding Clemson football’s College Football Playoff seeding after the coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers punched their ticket into the inaugural 12-team field with a 34-31 win over SMU in Saturday’s ACC championsWill Clemson get a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff?

Or will the Tigers be playing an on-campus road game in two weeks?

That’s the looming question surrounding Clemson football’s College Football Playoff seeding after the coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers punched their ticket into the inaugural 12-team field with a 34-31 win over SMU in Saturday’s ACC championsWill Clemson get a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff?

Or will the Tigers be playing an on-campus road game in two weeks?

That’s the looming question surrounding Clemson football’s College Football Playoff seeding after the coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers punched their ticket into the inaugural 12-team field with a 34-31 win over SMU in Saturday’s ACC championsWill Clemson get a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff?

Or will the Tigers be playing an on-campus road game in two weeks?

That’s the looming question surrounding Clemson football’s College Football Playoff seeding after the coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers punched their ticket into the inaugural 12-team field with a 34-31 win over SMU in Saturday’s ACC championsWill Clemson get a first-round bye into the College Football Playoff?

Or will the Tigers be playing an on-campus road game in two weeks?

That’s the looming question surrounding Clemson football’s College Football Playoff seeding after the coach Dabo Swinney and the Tigers punched their ticket into the inaugural 12-team field with a 34-31 win over SMU in Saturday’s ACC championship.hip.hip.hip.hip.

Clemson (10-3) doesn’t have to worry about missing the playoff. After beating No. 8 SMU in a thriller, the No. 17 Tigers will rise in the rankings and pop up one of the five highest ranked conference champions on Selection Sunday (12 p.m., ESPN).

Under the 12-team format, those five teams will get automatic bids.

But only four of those five teams will receive a coveted first-round bye into the quarterfinals – and the odd team out, based on current rankings, will likely start its CFP journey on the road as a No. 11 or No. 12 seed in two weeks.

Here’s where things currently stand for Clemson entering Sunday:

No. 1 Oregon beat No. 4 Penn State in the Big Ten championship, and No. 5 Georgia beat No. 2 Texas in the SEC championship. The Ducks (13-0) and the Bulldogs (11-2) are safe locks for first-round byes as the top two overall seeds in the field.

That leaves two more first-round byes, with three more conference champions under consideration: No. 10 Boise State, No. 15 Arizona State and No. 17 Clemson.

The Broncos finished 12-1 after beating No. 20 UNLV in Friday’s Mountain West conference championship game; the Sun Devils finished 11-2 after beating No. 16 Iowa State in the Big 12 title game; and No. 17 Clemson moved to 10-3 after beating SMU in the ACC championship game at Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium.