Pollsters in the 2019 FWAA-NFF Super 16 Pre-Season Poll are looking at Clemson and Alabama as the top two teams in college football in the same order as they finished last January in the CFP National Championship Game.
The Defending National Champion Tigers received 33 of 46 first-place votes and outdistanced No. 2 Alabama by 30 points. Clemson received 722 votes to Alabama's 692 points and 10 first-place votes. LSU had two first-place votes and Georgia one from the 46 voters.
The top two teams were followed by Georgia in the third spot, Oklahoma No. 4 and Ohio State No. 5. The Southeastern Conference had six teams in the poll, the Big Ten and Pac-12 three each, the Big 12 two, the Atlantic Coast Conference one and Independents one.
Complete Poll:
(Used with express permission of the NFF and FWAA)