WATCH: Rhett Lashlee reacts to SMU's Fenway Bowl bid
SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee reacted to the team’s Fenway Bowl bid to face Boston College on Sunday. Check out the video at the top for the full press conference.
The Mustangs beat Tulane in New Orleans on Saturday, winning the program’s first conference championship since 1984. Lashlee’s proud of what his team has accomplished this season.
“It’d be really gratifying. We’ve knocked off a lot I ‘haven’t been done in a while’ or ‘haven’t been done evers’ this year, which wasn’t our ultimate goal, but we’ve talked about it at times when we’ve done it,” Lashlee told reporters. “We haven’t won a bowl game here in a while, we need to try to accomplish that. Getting No. 12 to tie the school record would be big time. It’s like I’ve said the last three or four weeks, whether or not we win or lose that game’s not going to really validate or diminish this team’s accomplishment, I think it’s pretty cemented.
“But it would sure be fun to again, finish and send our seniors out the right way. And with the odds of us playing a future conference opponent, it’d be a heck of a way to leave the American and enter the ACC the right way.”
Now, SMU faces not only a future fellow league member, but faces one the Mustangs will host in Dallas in 2024. That didn’t stop Lashlee from telling the College Football Playoff committee that they got it wrong.
“The bottom line is we’re still celebrating what happened last night and we’re not going to let news of this afternoon, that maybe we don’t agree with, overshadow that. Hopefully our guys can get a little rest, get finals over with and then we’ll get some prep going and shortly after Christmas have an opportunity to win a 12th game, which I think has only been done one time in program history, and hopefully go out this season and send this team out with a bang.”
