Dabo Swinney will not be paying much attention, if any, when the first College Football Playoff rankings are announced on ESPN at 9 p.m. today.
“If it’s on down there in the PAW (Bistro), we’ll all watch it and enjoy our dinner,” Swinney said during his press conference Tuesday. “But it just doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter one bit.”
Clemson’s head coach 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.