SMU’s slim chance of making the 12-team field as a second ACC team pretty much evaporated when the previously undefeated Hurricanes lost to unranked Georgia Tech, dropping Miami from fourth to ninth in the committee’s second round of rankings.

Now in the latest rankings of the College Football Playoff, the Hurricanes are ranked No. 9 and are sitting right on the edge of the bubble of the new 12-team playoff. They drop t