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SMU Falls Short vs. Clemson in ACC Championship, Still Makes CFP
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12/9/2024
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It was SMU. They went down in the ACC Championship game but rallied from down by as many as 17
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in the second half to force a Clemson field goal at the very end. Nolan Hauser from 56
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yards out, the only 50-plus walk-off field goal in the history of the ACC Championship
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game. We knew that the Tigers of Clemson, DRS, could be a big stealer. They technically
00:31
were but not to the team they upended in SMU but Alabama. Donnie, I know that you wanted
00:37
the Crimson Tide into the college football playoff. When we reached Sunday, though, in
00:43
the overall sentiment it seemed that SMU would be that last at-large team, what was your
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initial reaction? Well, now at least I don't have to watch the game where SMU plays in.
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That was my initial reaction at that point. But they are deserving to play in. But also,
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you know what I want to see play up in? If they would have lost by seven points or more,
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which they looked like they were destined to do, I think that might have shifted a little
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bit. So I think the committee was like breathing a sigh of relief that they came back and made
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it where it was like, not even, Ben, where you're down ten points with ten seconds to
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go and you score the late touchdown to make it three. No, that game was tied up where
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Clemson had to make a 55-yard field goal to get in. So under the guise of, and you saw
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the odds, particularly in the FanBlue Sportsbook, is when we were doing the show live an hour
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before the show, it was minus 1,000 for SMU to get in the playoff. And then it dipped
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a little bit to that like minus 740, which again, in the odds market is still just about
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a slam dunk they're going to get in. So the intrigue wasn't there once you saw the odds
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that were posted. But I just think it would have been a little bit different if, let's
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just say, Clemson didn't hold on for a double-digit victory over SMU. I don't know if they would
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have made it in despite the previous week, what they were talking about. Oh, SMU's in
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the championship game. We're not going to hold it against them.
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