Clemson is ranked No. 5 in the College Football Playoff Committee’s initial rankings, which was released Tuesday night.
The Tigers have now been ranked in every CFP poll since it was first released on October 28, 2014. Clemson had been ranked in the top 4 of the rankings for 25 straight weeks.
However, Tuesday’s rankings do not matter to Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney. He pointed out that the CFP rankings will matter even less if the Tigers don’t win their next game against NC State at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh on Saturday.
“We lose to NC State, we’re going to celebrate, ‘Whoop, we were third in the poll.