Clemson Tigers: All Bark and No Bite?

Analyst Written on August 01, 2008

Now, before all the hate comments start flooding in, I wasn’t even considering writing an article about this until I read a comment in another forum regarding the Clemson Tigers.

Long story short, the poster said he leaned towards Alabama in Week 1 for a number of reasons which we won’t get into. However, one of his reasons was that Clemson failed to beat a single team in 2007 that finished in the top 25. So I decided to research this myself. I only looked at the top 15 because Clemson is securely in that group.

2008 USA Today Preseason Poll

1. Georgia (22) 0-0 1,438

2. USC (14) 0-0 1,430

3. Ohio State (14) 0-0 1,392

4. Oklahoma (3) 0-0 1,329

5. Florida (5) 0-0 1,293

6. LSU (3) 0-0 1,163

7. Missouri 0-0 1,143

8. West Virginia 0-0 1,008

9. Clemson 0-0 999

10. Texas 0-0 979

11. Auburn 0-0 888

12. Wisconsin 0-0 747

13. Kansas 0-0 714

14. Texas Tech 0-0 644

15. Virginia Tech 0-0 568

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