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Football coach SMU, Rhett Lashlee, doubles his conviction that the favorite ESPN certain conferences with their classification.
ESPN published its first ranking of the football power index in June. The Mustangs came out n ° 20 among the university football teams entering the 2025 season, although ACC teams like Miami (n ° 9) and Clemson (n ° 11) were higher on the list.
The football power index is a “measure of the team’s strength which is supposed to be the best predictor of the performance of a team in the future for the rest of the season”.
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South Methodist head coach Rhett Lashlee answers media questions during the ACC media days at Hilton Charlotte Uptown. (Jim Dedmon / Imagn images)
Now ESPN updated these rankings on Friday, and the Mustangs, after a surprise university football trip, after finishing 11-3 last season, only spent a place in n ° 19. Miami and Clemson, however, passed n ° 17 and n ° 16 respectively.
This led Lashlee to call the ESPN classification system a farce.
Arch Manning, Texas, seated at the top of the pre-season pre-college football poll ball
“Because everything is rigged,” he wrote on X.
Lashlee was also vocal during last season, where he questioned his conviction that the ACC and the Big 12 were disrespectful compared to the Big Ten and the dry, qualifying the latter as “high lurching”.
The Rhett Lashlee head coach of the Mustangs SMU speaks with an official during the first half of the ACC 2024 football championship at the Bank of America Stadium on December 07, 2024 in Charlotte, in North Carolina. (Grant Halverson / Getty Images)
“There are other leagues that claim depth,” said Lashlee, according to the New York Post. “The SEC has had the same six schools that have won the championship since 1964. Even six. Not a single one has been different since 1964. It’s the top for me. It’s not depth.”
Lashlee clearly does not believe that in his Mustangs to be more successful in 2025, but he wants more respect for the schools he will face.
Clemson, led by veteran chief coach Dabo Swinney, was the school that beat SMU during the ACC 2024, 34-31 championship, although the Lashlee group was the favorite of the inclination of the Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Mustangs SMU Mustangs head coach Rhett Lashle launched before the ACC 2024 football championship at the Bank of America Stadium on December 07, 2024 in Charlotte, in North Carolina. (Grant Halverson / Getty Images)
The quest for Lashlee to lead his Mustangs to be more successful in 2025 begins with their first match against East Texas A&M on August 30.
