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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2024 12:17 pmOverrated and Underrated teams
Most underrated team
SMU: Call me crazy, but I don't think SMU's jump to the ACC is going to be much of one. Sonny Dykes and Rhett Lashlee have carefully built this program up to Power Four level. The Mustangs get Florida State at home. Their toughest road game is at Louisville a week later. No Clemson. Everybody has seemed to have dismissed that Lashlee has kept this thing cooking after Dykes' departure. Last year's 11-3 team that won the American was arguably SMU's best since the 1980s.
SMU has a billionaire sugar daddy who organized the move to the ACC. With access to better players, the Ponies should compete with the ACC's elite. Fourteen starters return to a program that finished in the top 11 in scoring offense and defense. Watch Miami transfer tailback Brashard Smith, who caught 69 passes in three years with the 'Canes. Last year, he scored rushing, receiving and special teams touchdowns. -- Dodd (Palm)
The problem potentially in Dodd's pick is that he has a very long history of hating the ACC almost as bad as if he had applied to UVA, UNC, Dook, GT and Wake and gotten rejected among the very first rejects for each school.
Most underrated team
SMU: Call me crazy, but I don't think SMU's jump to the ACC is going to be much of one. Sonny Dykes and Rhett Lashlee have carefully built this program up to Power Four level. The Mustangs get Florida State at home. Their toughest road game is at Louisville a week later. No Clemson. Everybody has seemed to have dismissed that Lashlee has kept this thing cooking after Dykes' departure. Last year's 11-3 team that won the American was arguably SMU's best since the 1980s.
SMU has a billionaire sugar daddy who organized the move to the ACC. With access to better players, the Ponies should compete with the ACC's elite. Fourteen starters return to a program that finished in the top 11 in scoring offense and defense. Watch Miami transfer tailback Brashard Smith, who caught 69 passes in three years with the 'Canes. Last year, he scored rushing, receiving and special teams touchdowns. -- Dodd (Palm)
The problem potentially in Dodd's pick is that he has a very long history of hating the ACC almost as bad as if he had applied to UVA, UNC, Dook, GT and Wake and gotten rejected among the very first rejects for each school.