Clemson finds itself with an opportunity to do something that has been done just twice in the history of the Associated Press Poll … win three national championships in four years.
If the Tigers do the unimaginable, they will join Notre Dame and Alabama as the only schools to win three AP national championships in four seasons. Notre Dame first did it with AP national championships in 1946, ’47 and ’49. Alabama joined them when it won the AP national championships in 2009, 2011 and 2012.
In all, just nine times in the 86-year history of the AP Poll has a team repeated as national champions.