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Clemson Football: AP Voters show bias with Bama, punishing Tigers

The AP Poll doesn’t matter, but it certainly creates narratives that the CFB Playoff committee will consider when they come up with their poll in just a few weeks.

In the latest AP Poll, the Clemson football team dropped yet another spot down to No. 4 despite blowing out Louisville on the road by 35 points.

The Tigers covered the spread comfortably for a second-straight week, but dropped due to narrative that they are somehow not as dominant as last year’s National Championship team.

Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney told the media Sunday night that the team is beating opponents by 28.