Clemson snaps awful ACC bowl-game streak with Cheez-It Bowl win

The Clemson Tigers have bounced back from a slow start to the season Winners of five straight to end the regular season. And on Wednesday night, they capped off the year with a 20-13 against the Iowa State Hawkeyes in the Cheez-It Bowl. A win that gets the monkey off not only the Tigers back but the back of the ACC conference as well.

The team for Fox College Football revealed that Clemson’s win ends the ACC’s losing streak in bowl games, a streak that dates back to 2019. The tally of losses starts with the Virginia Cavaliers’ loss in the 2019 Orange Bowl against the Florida Gators. That game was played on Dec. 30, at 8:00 PM EDT, shortly after the conference’s last win; which was by the Louisville Cardinals in the Music City Bowl against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The losing streak spans over three college football bowl seasons.

Brock Purdy poor decision leads to insane pick-six for Clemson

At one point, the Cheez-It Bowl was a 6-3 game. But it got weird pretty fast late in the third quarter between Clemson and Iowa State.

Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy went to throw a pass, but it got tipped. Purdy tried to tip it again, but ended up knocking it right into the hands of Clemson’s Mario Goodrich, who took it to the house for a pick-six.

Just watch it.

Clemson took a 6-3 lead into halftime and finally found the end zone with 4:54 left in the third quarter. In fact, the Tigers took 16 plays and 7:39 to score, using plenty of clock. The pick-six came 53 seconds later and made it a 20-3 Clemson lead.

But then, with 2:27 left in the third, Tigers quarterback DJ Uiagalelei threw an interception of his own to give Iowa State the ball right back. The Cyclones settled for a field goal to cut the Clemson lead to 20-6 with 1:23 left in the third quarter.