SMU coach Rhett Lashlee thinks the ACC is one of the deepest conferences in the country and wants the College Football Playoff to expand to 16 teams.
Lashlee’s Mustangs were one of the 12 teams to make the expanded College Football Playoff in 2024. SMU won the ACC’s regular season title but lost to Clemson in the ACC title game. However, the Mustangs got into the playoff with an at-large bid before losing in the first round at Penn State.
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At ACC media day on Tuesday, Lashlee boasted about the depth of the ACC, while noting that six teams have won an SEC title since 1964.
“The ACC, you can’t have an off week or you’re going to get beat,” Lashlee said at media day. “It doesn’t matter if you’re playing at Clemson, it doesn’t matter if you’re playing whoever that last-place team is at home. If you have an off week, if you play like we did in the playoff game, you’re probably going to lose. Look at our Duke game. It was a miracle we won. We went out and turned it over six times. We should have lost. And that was a good team.”
“It’s just a week in, week out — that’s the league you want to be in, that’s where you want to be. You look at our league, we had like four 10-win teams, two playoff teams, a handful of nine-win teams, 13 bowl teams, there’s just not a lot of easy wins on the schedule. And there’s other leagues that claim depth. But like, the SEC has had the same six schools win the championship since 1964. The same six. Not a single one has been different since 1964. That’s top-heavy to me. That’s not depth.”
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee have all won SEC titles since the conference championship game was implemented in 1992 while Arkansas, Mississippi State, South Carolina and Missouri have made the title game and lost in that time…
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Author : Nick Bromberg
Publish date : 2025-07-22 18:47:00
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