SMU is still in the running for the ACC championship and College Football Playoff. What will it take to get there?
SMU linebacker Kobe Wilson holds the Iron Skillet trophy as the team celebrates its 66-42 victory over TCU in an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, in Dallas.walks away with a win puts the Mustangs one step closer to a goal no one thought was possible when the season kicked off.
Unless SMU can secure an automatic bid as one of the four highest-ranked conference champions, it will only get in if it’s awarded an at-large bid. That could force the selection committee to make a challenging decision between putting in a two-loss conference runner-up and a one-loss ACC team that didn’t make the conference championship game. With the talent in other conferences like the SEC and Big Ten, there may not be room for three ACC teams.
That would force the ACC into a complicated tiebreaker situation. Head-to-head and winning percentage against common opponents would not differentiate the three teams. Instead, it would likely come down to combined win percentage of conference opponents.As it currently stands, SMU and Miami would earn the two spots based on the record of their conference opponents thus far, but that is subject to change throughout the last five weeks of conference play.
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