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Why Pittsburgh vs. SMU ‘quietly’ has ‘massive’ CFP implications | College Football Power Hour

Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman look ahead to Saturday night’s battle between two ranked ACC teams battling to stay in the race for top spot in the conference. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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The, the, the other game to kind of think about this weekend that no one’s really talking about, I haven’t even seen, they weren’t even talking about it on TV.

That today I was watching is the Pitt, uh, SMU game and how big that game is for the AC C, uh, you know, like is Pitt legitimately a great team that’s undefeated or is their season a house of cards?

Like we don’t know yet.

And now there’s no reason for what I’ve seen to believe, Pitt’s not legit, but so is SMU SMU seven and 15 straight wins.

Uh, their three point loss to BYU doesn’t look so bad anymore.

Uh, when, when you look at their, when you look at how the season’s played out.

So, uh, the winner of this game is right in there to in contention to go to Charlotte for the AC C title.

And I, I think this game is gonna be one that comes down to the final possession and, and is gonna have a big impact on these kind of two teams that have been quietly having great seasons.

I think it’s really difficult to cosplay as a really good team through nine weeks.

Like, I don’t think that you can have a nine week sample size and be seven and zero undefeated like Pitt is and have that all.

Just be like a mirage and the fallacy.

So this is a quiet matchup that could have massive implications for the college football playoff because we’re now looking at four AC C teams that are either undefeated or have one loss.

And if Pitt takes down SMU, well, now they’re eight.

No.

And now we’re legitimately talking about potentially…


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