Clemson to enter season ranked #12
Clemson was ranked 12th in the Associated Press preseason college football poll released Sunday afternoon. It is the same preseason ranking the Tigers received by the USA Today Coaches Poll two weeks ago. This is the highest preseason ranking Clemson has had since 2013 when the program was eighth. Clemson’s highest preseason ranking is history is No. 4 in 1984 and 1988. The only other year Clemson was No. 12 in the preseason ranking was 1989. The Tigers finished No. 12 that year. Ohio State is the unanimous #1, the first team to get the honor unanimously in the poll’s 61 year history.