Where does Clemson rank over last 25 seasons of USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll finishes?

There are a lot of ways to measure how successful a college football program has been over a long period of time.

Wins and losses are the most important thing, to be sure. National and conference championships, too. The number of players a team sends to the NFL also makes for a good program. Fortunately, the Clemson Tigers check all of those boxes.

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Then there’s poll rankings, which is what our friends over at College Wire used by taking a look at the final USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll from every season dating back to 2000. Using an assigned points value system (25 points for a first-place finish, one point for finishing at No. 25), College Wire’s Patrick Conn looked at who were college football’s most successful programs of the past 25 seasons.

Clemson ranks No. 8 on the list with 264 assigned points. To break it down, the Tigers finished in the Top 25 a total of 18 times, including eight times in the top 10 and six times in the top five. Their two national championships (2016 and ’18) are more than many teams that rank ahead of Clemson in overall Top 25 finishes.

To put it into perspective, since 2000 the Tigers have more national championships than the team tied with the Ohio State Buckeyes for the most appearances in the final Coaches Poll: the Oklahoma Sooners. Clemson’s 18 appearances in the final Coaches Poll are also more than Florida State (17) and Notre Dame (15), and they tie the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Only three programs have more final Coaches Poll Top 25 appearances since 2000 than Clemson: aforementioned Oklahoma and Ohio State lead the way with 21 apiece while the Georgia Bulldogs have 20.

Clemson’s first top 10 appearance in this stretch was in 2012 when Dabo Swinney’s Tigers went 10-2 in the regular season and ended…

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Author : Clemson Wire

Publish date : 2025-02-19 22:09:00

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