As many of you already know, Clemson was voted the top-ranked team in the country by the Associated Press on Monday. It marks the second straight year the Tigers will hold the No. 1 ranking when the college football season kicks off.
However, what you probably do not know is the significance of the ranking. Granted, preseason polls carry very little weight in the grand scheme of things. However, the preseason polls are a refection of how others around the country view a program, and right now Clemson’s football program is viewed in a very rare light.
Clemson becomes the sixth program since the inception of the preseason poll in 1950 ever to open consecutive preseason polls at No.