Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney caused a stir last week when he placed the undefeated Ohio State 11th in his Amway coaching poll.
Fortunately, the Tigers and Buckeyes will face off Friday in a school football semi-final game. Does Swinney think Ohio State No. 3 is actually the eleventh most productive team in the country?sensibest 10.
“They’re smart enough and talented enough to beat us and smart enough to win the national championship,” Swinney told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi. “But in my opinion, I don’t think it’s fair for three groups to have to play thirteen games to win it all and a team has to play 8. What universe do I live in? And it has nothing to do with them. It’s a classification query. And I didn’t think they were classified. “
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In terms of numbers, Swinney’s right. The No. 1 Alabama, the No. 2 Clemson and the No. 4 Notre Dame have played 11 games, while Ohio State played six. So, Swinney explained, they weren’t even in his 10 most sensible.
“It has nothing to do with the state of Ohio, surely zero,” Swinney said. “You can replace the call in Michigan or Georgia or Florida or Tennessee or Nebraska. Every time I’m in the 10th most sensible ranking. “, it deserves to be so special. This year it’s a special ArrayArray and I looked for it to be like this.
“And then I sought to recognize the groups that played nine or more games. And so, if you don’t play nine games, I just don’t make you in the 10 most sensible, that’s why there were 11 of them. “