{"id":133251,"date":"2024-12-04T15:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133251"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T08:37:46","slug":"iowa-state-smu-athletic-directors-exchange-barbs-over-cfp-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133251","title":{"rendered":"Iowa State, SMU athletic directors exchange barbs over CFP credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Athletic directors at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/66\/iowa-state-cyclones\">Iowa State<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2567\/smu-mustangs\">SMU<\/a> are in a turf war over the latest College Football Playoff rankings, leading to a &#8220;stay off my lawn&#8221; moment on social media<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iastatead\/status\/1864141264620339399?s=46&amp;t=y0hstlbC--4UXCQ3S9MahGw\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The background: SMU, at 11-1 and riding a nine-game winning streak into the Atlantic Coast Conference title game, was slotted at No. 8 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/42763113\/alabama-crimson-tide-land-no-11-cfp-rankings\">Tuesday night&#8217;s latest ranking<\/a>. Iowa State, meanwhile, is at 16th and playing for the title of the Big 12, which appears set to receive only one bid in the 12-team field that comes out Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cyclones AD Jamie Pollard doesn&#8217;t like that, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IASTATEAD\/status\/1864133386119311426\">made his feelings clear on X<\/a>, pointing out that SMU hasn&#8217;t played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/228\/clemson-tigers\">Clemson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/183\/syracuse-orange\">Syracuse<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/59\/georgia-tech-yellow-jackets\">Georgia Tech<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/game\/_\/gameId\/401635609\/miami-georgia-tech\">Miami<\/a> &#8212; four of the ACC&#8217;s top seven teams &#8212; and lost at home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/252\/byu-cougars\">BYU<\/a> of the Big 12.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/42763113\/alabama-crimson-tide-land-no-11-cfp-rankings\" class=\"img-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2024\/1204\/r1423262_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/42765322\/acc-hoping-cfp-committee-reconsider-miami-ranking\" class=\"img-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2024\/1204\/r1423303_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like your lawn may be artificial,&#8221; Pollard wrote in a post directed to SMU&#8217;s AD, Rick Hart.<\/p>\n<p>Hart mowed down Pollard with a response of his own that started with &#8220;respect you, but bad take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He compared nonconference schedules &#8212; SMU&#8217;s was better &#8212; and pointed out the Mustangs have trailed for only about six minutes of their past nine games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could go on &#8230; Stay off my lawn!&#8221; he posted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jamie, respect you but bad take. ISU had No. D, Iowa, Ark. St. non-con. SMU had Nev., HCU, TCU, BYU. (And scrambled due to Vandy dropping us.) SMU 1 of 2 to win all conf. games, 1 of 3 with 9 P4 wins, trailed a TOTAL of 6+ mins. last 9 games. I could go on&#8230; Stay off my lawn! \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gsGSAbL9KR\">https:\/\/t.co\/gsGSAbL9KR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Hart (@AD_RickHart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AD_RickHart\/status\/1864138113771090385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Iowa State appears to be in a win-or-else mode, while SMU&#8217;s fate is a little less clear.<\/p>\n<p>If the Mustangs lose to No. 17 Clemson, the CFP selection committee will have to decide how much to penalize a team that made a title game, while others in contention did not. The choice could, for instance, pit SMU against Alabama, which is ranked 11th and is the last team in this week&#8217;s projected bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some of these differences will be settled on the field Saturday. Pollard, the Iowa State AD, conceded as much by opening his salvo to Hart with this olive branch: &#8220;Rick, beat Clemson Saturday and I will respect your ranking,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/42767844\/iowa-state-smu-athletic-directors-exchange-barbs-cfp-credentials\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletic directors at Iowa State and SMU are in a turf war over the latest College Football Playoff rankings, leading to a &#8220;stay off my lawn&#8221; moment on social media. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133251\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}