Tuesday Tailgate: SMU will play for an ACC title & huge implications for Texas/Texas A&M

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K&C goes over the penultimate weekend of the 2024 college football regular season, including how SMU clinched a spot in the ACC Championship Game, Texas A&M lost to Auburn but could still win the SEC, and more.

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00:00So SMU has clinched a spot in the ACC Championship with a 33-7 win over Virginia.

00:22You look back at some of these wins man, they've been throttling folks.

00:26They're the first team in league history to make the title game in its first season.

00:31I assume aside from like the first ever year of the ACC when that would have had to happen.

00:36They're 10-1.

00:37That's pretty damn impressive.

00:39It is.

00:40Yeah, no, it's what Lashley's been able to build here as quickly as he's been able to

00:44build it is really nice and then as we were talking about his contract got extended after

00:49it already got it extended, they want to keep him around for a while.

00:53Because if you're SMU, you have to look at this season and be like, you better give them

00:56another extension.

00:57Do you think the TCU coach regrets leaving SMU?

01:00Yes.

01:01Especially with the implementation.

01:02I really do.

01:03Especially the implementation of NIL.

01:04I really do.

01:05I don't know man.

01:06TCU's really good.

01:07Shut up.

01:08Fort Worth great.

01:09Here's the deal.

01:10Let's be honest here.

01:11TCU in the history.

01:12Guess what?

01:13TCU couldn't compete in the 80s when UT and A&M and SMU and all these schools were paying

01:17a crap ton of money for all of these kids.

01:19Especially Barry Switzer's, not himself, but getting all of his people to pay a crap

01:23ton to get Texas kids to go to Oklahoma.

01:26TCU couldn't compete.

01:27They were pathetic at football.

01:29Now that we're back into that mode, how is TCU ever going to be good again?

01:33They're going to need the people that have graduated from TCU and they make nine figures

01:38a year to start donating, I don't know, $2 million a year.

01:44All of them need, if they're going to ever compete again, because SMU's like, oh my gosh,

01:50we're going to get in the ACC, pay a crap ton of money to get into the ACC.

01:54Guess what?

01:55We saw in the 80s, all of those people are back.

01:57They're like, we can pay and it's legal.

01:59We were the ones.

02:00That'll pay off for the university far exceeding whatever money they're pumping in.

02:07We talked about this before.

02:09The correlation between you're good at football and the amount of people who are trying to

02:15get into your school rises, that's been proven again and again and again.

02:20I think TCU, I hate saying this, I'm not against TCU.

02:23I'd love for my kid to go to TCU.

02:25It's awesome, but you're done.

02:27Unless you can find the SMU money, you're done and SMU has proven decades ago, they

02:32got the money to compete in this region.

02:35Now I have this quick question about SMU and Colorado.

02:39Is there only going to be one team from the Big 12 and one team from the ACC get into

02:43the final 12, get into the playoffs?

02:48Probably because if Miami was in the championship and then they beat SMU, I don't see SMU making

02:55it and with Clemson having lost, I could see that.

02:59So if SMU beats Miami, is Miami still in?

03:03Not if they lose.

03:05I don't think so.

03:06Carter might disagree with me, but they've been ripping on Miami's schedule all year,

03:10so I don't think so.

03:11Everybody has been ripping on that schedule and when they lost that one, it kind of knocked

03:14them a little bit.

03:15Exactly.

03:16If that would have been their only loss, I still think yes.

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