Where Clemson Ranks in This CFB Insider’s Preseason AP Top 25 Ballot
By: Staff Report August 10, 2023

The college football season is right around the corner, and that means preseason polls are coming out.

This week, a longtime college football insider released his personal preseason AP Top 25 Poll ballot.

Brett McMurphy, now of Action Network, has Clemson just cracking the top 10 at No. 10.

Florida State, meanwhile, is all the way up at No. 3 behind only Georgia and Michigan in McMurphy’s ballot.

Louisville (No. 16) and North Carolina (No. 18) are the other ACC teams that McMurphy has in his top 25, while he has Clemson’s Nov. 4 opponent, Notre Dame, ranked two spots behind the Tigers at No. 12.

McMurphy’s full top 25 is as follows:

1 Georgia
2 Michigan
3 Florida State
4 Ohio State
5 Alabama
6 LSU
7 Washington
8 Penn State
9 Oregon
10 Clemson
11 Texas Tech
12 Notre Dame
13 Oregon State
14 USC
15 Tennessee
16 Louisville
17 Ole Miss
18 UNC
19 UCLA
20 Texas
21 Tulane
22 Utah
23 Wisconsin
24 Auburn
25 Illinois

The official preseason AP Top 25 Poll will be released around noon ET this coming Monday.

Clemson (11-3, 9-0 ACC in 2022) finished last season ranked No. 13 in the final AP Poll.

The Tigers came in at No. 9 in the preseason Coaches Poll that was released this week.

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