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The SMU Mustangs made history when they were chosen over the Alabama Crimson Tide to get into the College Football Playoff last season, which caused quite the controversy, especially considering the fact that the Mustangs had lost the ACC Championship game to the Clemson Tigers.
It was big news at the time because many thought only one ACC team would get in, not two.
It also caused a firestorm because the committee left out an SEC team for an ACC team, when the year before, they had leapfrogged the SEC Champion, Alabama, over the ACC champ, undefeated Florida State.
Mustangs head coach Rhett Lashlee, who used to coach in the SEC, took a shot at the SEC during ACC Media Days.
“The SEC has had the same six schools win the championship since 1964. Not a single one has been different since 1964. That’s top-heavy to me. That’s not depth.”
But the ACC is top-heavy as well in football. Only three teams, Clemson, Florida State, and Miami, have won national championships in football in the past 30 years.
Only Clemson and Florida State have won national championships in the past 22 years, and all of the Miami Hurricanes' national championships came before they joined the ACC.
Meanwhile, Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Auburn, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and Tennessee have all won national championships in football in the past 30 years.
If Lashlee was trying to embarrass the SEC, he missed the mark, and he actually embarrassed his own conference. Most of the ACC’s national championships came from two schools that won most of their championships before they even joined the conference.
Also, several of the conference schools, most recently FSU, wanted out of the ACC because of what happened to them the year before.
So maybe Lashlee should do his research first before throwing shade at the SEC.
