Rhett Lashlee lost track midsentence. Considering the sentence, how could you blame him?
The SMU football coach was running down the list of teams that have a shot at reaching the Atlantic Coast Conference title game entering the final weekend of the regular season — and then he just sort of gave up.
“Both us and Virginia have that opportunity this week,” Lashlee said. ” Pitt’s still in it. Miami. Duke. I think there’s a lot of people still in it.”
In the end, perhaps too many — Lashlee inadvertently left out Georgia Tech — for the power conference everyone loves to pick on to receive multiple berths into the College Football Playoff.
In all, there are a half-dozen ACC teams with viable — albeit in some cases, unlikely — paths to Charlotte, North Carolina, on the first Saturday in December, when the league title game winner could lock up a spot in the 12-team bracket for the CFP as one of the highest-ranked conference champions.