Clemson is on the verge of a fourth straight College Football Playoff appearance, a streak that began in 2015, one year after a nine-win regular season and berth in the Russell Athletic Bowl and five years after squeaking into the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Dabo Swinney's second season.
Clemson went from national championship outsider to an annual leader in the playoff discussion. Which current outsider could be next? I asked Kirk Herbstreit and Paul Finebaum in recent weeks and posed the same question to Bill Bender this week.
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