Is Clemson ranked too low in the AP poll? | College Football Power Hour
Yahoo! Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman discuss the Tigers' latest ranking in the Associated Press poll. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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But also, then I'll add to all of this if we're gonna sit here and start valuing losses at different levels based on who you lost to.
Why is Clemson so?
Well, I mean, if we're gonna talk about one loss at this point, Clemson has one loss to Georgia.
So like why is Clemson ranked below Tennessee?
10?
Clemson has a much better loss than Tennessee does?
I mean, you could argue, argue at this point based on the rankings as they stand today.
Clemson actually has a better loss than Georgia does.
So like if we're just gonna get Willy nilly with the results we've seen on the field doesn't really matter that Georgia beat Clemson.
Clemson has a better loss.
So just rank him up there.
It's, it's a very fair argument and it's something that I, when I looked at the A P poll that was one team that stood out to me like a sore thumb of why are we still not giving club in credit for what they've done since that loss to Georgia?
But I think it's important, Adam, you ask what's the A P poll?
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what the A P poll is all it is, is a bunch of people, very smart people that all prioritize and value different things.
I mean, we, the three of us are a sample size of what, how many people vote in the A P 50.
I value Georgia's loss more than I value Alabama's bad loss more than I might value Alabama's good win.
You fits you, Adam, you guys think something differently.
So whenever you put all of those things together and you just mush up a bunch of different points, you're going to get very odd and very skewed results because people value different things and they're not consulting all of these things.
This is why the college football playoff matters.
Once the college football playoff rankings come out, who cares about the A people?
Nobody, nobody cares.