Preseason AP poll ranking for Clemson released |
The Associated Press released its preseason top-25 poll on Monday and Clemson is officially regarded as one of the nation's best again.
The AP poll, which has been around since 1936, ranked Clemson No. 3 with six first-place votes behind Alabama (47) and Oklahoma (6), with Ohio State (1) and Georgia (3) rounding out the top-5. UNC is the next-best from the ACC at No. 10, with Miami inside the top-15 as well (14). Like with the USA TODAY Coaches Poll, Clemson was ranked No. 1 preseason in the previous two seasons. Also like with the Coaches Poll, the Tigers have both been ranked in the AP preseason top-5 and finished in the top-5 each season since 2016, which no other team in college football accomplished. Clemson was ranked No. 2 in the preseason Coaches Poll last week. RANK TEAM PV RANK POINTS 1 Alabama (0-0) 1 1,548 (47) 2 Oklahoma (0-0) 6 1,462 (6) 3 Clemson (0-0) 3 1,447 (6) 4 Ohio State (0-0) 2 1,393 (1) 5 Georgia (0-0) 7 1,364 (3) 6 Texas A&M (0-0) 4 1,223 7 Iowa State (0-0) 9 1,160 8 Cincinnati (0-0) 8 1,014 9 Notre Dame (0-0) 5 1,009 10 North Carolina (0-0) 18 999 11 Oregon (0-0) 968 12 Wisconsin (0-0) 743 13 Florida (0-0) 13 728 14 Miami (FL) (0-0) 22 663 15 USC (0-0) 21 660 16 LSU (0-0) 631 17 Indiana (0-0) 12 549 18 Iowa (0-0) 16 513 19 Penn State (0-0) 456 20 Washington (0-0) 449 21 Texas (0-0) 19 350 22 Coastal Carolina (0-0) 14 232 23 Louisiana-Lafayette (0-0) 15 208 24 Utah (0-0) 176 25 Arizona State (0-0) 125 Others receiving votes: Oklahoma State 107, Ole Miss 106, TCU 40, Liberty 36, Auburn 32, North Carolina State 14, Michigan 12, Northwestern 8, Boise State 7, Nevada 7, Brigham Young 6, Ball State 6, Houston 5, Boston College 5, UCF 5, West Virginia 3, UAB 2, Army 2, UCLA 2 Remember, AP Polls are largely meaningless. However, a note or two on the three ranked ACC teams. Good luck Alabama: 15 of last 17 AP preseason No. 1 ranked teams failed to win national title
No. 3 Clemson is ranked in the AP top-5 for the 57th straight week.
That is 39 weeks longer than any other active streak (Alabama, 18) and 11 shy of the record (Alabama, 68)
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