Tigers top FWAA Super 16 Ranking

Pollsters in the 2019 FWAA-NFF Super 16 Pre-Season Poll are looking at Clemson and Alabama as the top two teams in college football in the same order as they finished last January in the CFP National Championship Game.

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The Defending National Champion Tigers received 33 of 46 first-place votes and outdistanced No. 2 Alabama by 30 points. Clemson received 722 votes to Alabama's 692 points and 10 first-place votes. LSU had two first-place votes and Georgia one from the 46 voters.

The top two teams were followed by Georgia in the third spot, Oklahoma No. 4 and Ohio State No. 5. The Southeastern Conference had six teams in the poll, the Big Ten and Pac-12 three each, the Big 12 two, the Atlantic Coast Conference one and Independents one.

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Published Aug 19, 2019

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The home for Clemson Tiger sports is manned by Zach Lentz, the 2017 South Carolina Sports Writer of the Year and author of “The Journey to the Top”—which reached No.1 on Amazon.com’s best seller list for sports books. Zach has covered the Clemson program for 10 years and in that time has devoted his time to bringing Clemson fans the breaking stories, features, game previews, recaps and information that cannot be found anywhere else.

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