Clemson Tigers drop in latest ACC Power rankings after loss

Clemson Tigers had high hopes for the 2024 season after finishing the 2023 campaign with a 9-4 overall record and 4-4 in Atlantic Coast Conference play, but finished the year on a five-game winning streak.

Those hopes were dashed hard, fast and in a hurry in Week 1 when they lost 34-3 on the road. Georgia Bulldogsand everyone thought the sky was falling.

Chicken Little proved to be a liar, at least for a few more weeks, as the Tigers turned things around, going on a six-game winning streak and dominating every opponent that stood in their way, outscoring the competition 291-127 during that stretch, which is more which doubled the total result of the opponents.

Chicken Little continued to cackle, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling! but no one listened to the chicken because Clemson kept winning.

It all came to an end for the second time this year on Saturday when the Tigers hosted the tournament. Louisville Cardinalsa team they had never lost to.

Just 60 minutes later, as the clock struck 00:00, Chicken Little stood upright as everyone around him lowered their heads in defeat; Clemson lost 33–21, adding a second loss to their season total and all but sealing their fate of missing the expanded College Football Playoff.

While the Tigers were busy losing, Miami Hurricanes and amazing SMU Mustangs took care of business in their games, continuing their impressive performance this year and widening the gap between them and Clemson.

In a recent article from Saturday in the SouthSpencer Davis tried to quantify how wide that gap is by assessing the ACC rankings.

After finishing second in Davis’ latest power rankings, the Tigers have now dropped to fourth in the conference, behind the Mustangs and Cardinals.

Clemson still has a chance to make the College Football Playoff, although it will require significant help from outside forces (read: the Hurricanes and SMU should lose more games going forward, even though both teams are facing the toughest stretches of their careers). schedules and are almost guaranteed to win).

The signs were there from the start: a weak schedule, a slow start to last year against tougher competition, a blowout loss to the Bulldogs in Week 1 and the clucking of Chicken Little.

From time to time, Chicken Little may turn out to be telling the truth.

The sky is falling in Death Valley along with the Tigers’ chances of making the College Football Playoff.