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Orange Bowl bound
Marc Morehouse
Dec. 6, 2009 6:14 pm
For the second time, the Iowa Hawekeyes will play in the Orange Bowl.
The travel agencies started to leak it late Sunday afternoon. The BCS selection show made it official this evening.
The Hawkeyes (10-2) will face off with Georgia Tech (11-2). The Yellow Jackets knocked off Clemson, 39-34, in the ACC title game Saturday night and earned the automatic berth to the Orange Bowl.
Jonathan Dwyer's 15-yard touchdown run with 1:20 remaining gave the 12th-ranked Yellow Jackets victory over No. 25 Clemson in Saturday night's ACC championship game.
Josh Nesbitt threw a 70-yard TD pass to Demaryius Thomas and Scott Blair kicked a title game-record four field goals to help the Yellow Jackets (11-2) win the crown - Tech's first since sharing it with Florida State in 1998 - in their second season under Johnson.
ACC player of the year C.J. Spiller rushed for 233 yards and four touchdowns for Clemson (8-5), which has lost two straight following a six-game winning streak that revived its season after a slow start.
Blair, the star of Georgia Tech's three-point victory over Clemson during the regular season, kicked field goals of 48, 49, 28 and 40 yards. Dwyer ran for two TDs and Nesbitt ran for one for the Yellow Jackets, who rushed for 333 yards.
The Hawkeyes fell to USC in the 2003 Orange Bowl, 38-17.
More from Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz, Iowa athletics director Gary Barta and selected players later. Iowa has a press conference scheduled for 8 p.m.

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