College Football Playoff: Latest ranking for SMU revealed by committee
The College Football Playoff committee revealed the latest ranking for the SMU Mustangs on Tuesday. Rhett Lashlee’s team now sits at No. 13 in the latest Top 25 announced on ESPN. At No. 15 is Texas A&M and No. 14 is BYU, who SMU lost to earlier this year.
SMU’s fresh off beating Boston College, 38-28, last weekend in Ford Stadium. The Mustangs sit at 9-1 overall and are 6-0 in ACC play, which makes the program 6-0 in league play for back-to-back seasons for the first time in program history.
The four highest-ranked conference champions will receive byes, and the first-round games will all take place at campus sites to begin the playoff. From there, the winners will advance to respective bowl games leading to the national championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 20.
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For SMU, this weekend the team will have an opportunity to clinch a berth in the ACC Championship, if the Mustangs beat Virginia. The Mustangs can’t be thinking about what’s ahead, but instead need to focus on the process.
“No, you can’t let yourself go there. We have two games left, the job’s not done. We all understand what’s in front of us and what opportunities we have,” SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee said Tuesday. “If you sit around and think about that for too long, you won’t stay present. So, we have put ourselves in this position. It’s what we wanted to do. We talked about before the season; we wanted to prove we belong and try to put ourself in position in November to be playing for something, and we are. So that part’s accomplished. Now we gotta go finish. We gotta go finish the deal. We get an opportunity to do that Saturday, so trying to stay focused on that.”
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