Yep, I think he will have the team ready and prepared to play SMU. Like you said, due to the connections with Rhett, former Canes, and the fact they were a playoff team last year. The rest of the college football world has us losing that game, but we go in there and win a tough one.
It’s the Pitt game that scares me. Pitt will drop another 2-3 games. We will be favored by 10+ points. All we have to do is win the game and we are in the playoffs. That MF Narduzzi will have his team motivated to play us. Not sure Mario will have us motivated and prepared for that game.
Honestly, any team left on our schedule can beat us. I think we are better than all remaining opponents, but we struggle to put teams away, have no killer instinct, and have no creativity on offense, especially in the run game.
Prepare yourself for 6 more battles, most of them going down to the wire.