Clemson has unsurprisingly plummeted in this national outlet’s college football rankings.
After starting the season at No. 4, the Tigers (1-3, 0-2 ACC) have tumbled all the way down to No. 49 in the latest CBS Sports rankings of all 136 teams in the FBS.
“Tigers have dropped 36 spots in the last two weeks and 45 spots since the preseason rankings, and yet that probably isn’t even as close to how the fall from grace feels when it comes Clemson’s standing in the national landscape,” CBS Sports’ Chip Patterson wrote.
“Even when the bottom was falling out in 2023 (a season that still finished with a 9-4 record), there was not this much alarm in terms of how a team that appeared to be so much better on paper than they are in performance.