Ahead of this season’s College Football Playoff semifinals, CBS Sports ranked every semifinal team in the CFP era, which began with the 2014 season.
There have been 48 playoff semifinal teams in the history of the CFP, including this season’s group of Miami, Ole Miss, Oregon and Indiana. As for Clemson, the Tigers had six semifinal teams during their run of six straight playoff appearances from 2015-20 in the four-team playoff era.
So, where do those Clemson squads stack up among the best CFP semifinal teams all-time, according to CBS Sports?
Clemson’s 2018 national title team, which became the first major college football team in the modern era (and the first since Penn in 1897) to finish a season with a 15-0 record, comes in at No.