Rhett Lashlee lost track midsentence. Considering the sentence, how could you blame him?

The SMU coach was running down the list of teams that have a shot at reaching the ACC title game entering the final weekend of the regular season and then 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 Four 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 le

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