Rhett Lashlee says a tweet revealing SMU induced CFP lowered his heart rate

After a 34-31 loss to Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, SMU spent every waking minute wondering and worrying about whether it would secure a spot in the College Football Playoff.

In the anxious final moments before the playoff round was revealed, Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee felt relief from an unexpected source.

A minute before ESPN’s playoff selection show, college football reporter Brett McMurphy posted on with McMurphy citing unnamed sources.

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For Lashlee, seeing the news was even better than going to the cardiologist.

“It probably increased my heart rate from about 200 to 160,” Lashlee said in an interview with ESPN after the bracket was released. “Until we saw SMU up there, they were just hanging on the sidelines.”

While breaking news of a televised event is nothing new in sports – it happens every year with NBA draft decisions before they are announced – this is believed to be the first time in the playoffs -Eleven-year schedule information has been leaked, according to Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports.

McMurphy, who now works for sports betting site Action Network, was previously a college football reporter for ESPN.

Alabama was expected to make the field following the playoff committee’s second-to-last ranking, which had the Crimson Tide at No. 11. But Clemson’s win over SMU, which came on a 56-yard field goal as time expired, gave the Tigers an automatic spot in the playoff field as ACC champions and pushed Clemson ahead of Alabama, despite being ranked in the committee’s final rankings was five spots behind the Tide. The Mustangs’ last-second loss, meanwhile, dropped them just two spots to No. 10, one spot ahead of Alabama.

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Rhett Lashlee says a tweet revealing SMU induced CFP lowered his heart rate

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