COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State finished where it started. The Buckeyes came in at No. 6 in the final Associated Press college football poll of the 2016 season. We were a few seconds away from having just the third wire-to-wire No. 1 team in the long history of the AP poll. Deshaun Watson and Clemson had other plans. The Tigers beat Alabama, 35-31, in the College Football Playoff National Championship that began on Monday night and bled into early Tuesday morning. Watson’s touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with one second left sealed the win. So Clemson is the No. 1 team in the final AP poll of the 2016 college football season. Alabama, which had been No. 1 every week right up until Renfrow fell in the end zone for that game-winning touchdown, finished No. 2. The Crimson Tide would have been the third wire-to-wire No. 1 team in the…
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