Playoff Bound: Michigan State head to Cotton Bowl

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Third-ranked Michigan State will face #2 Alabama in the semi-final college football playoff.

The game will take place on Dec. 31 in the Cotton Bowl.

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Top-ranked Clemson will play #4 Oklahoma in the other semi-final game at the Orange Bowl.

The winners will move onto the College Football National Championship game on Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz.

Michigan State earned their playoff berth with a 16-13 win again the previously unranked Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big Ten Championship.

State is the defending Cotton Bowl champs. On Jan 1. they defeated Baylor 42-41 after a fourth quarter comeback.