(Photo credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images) SMU was picked to finish seventh in its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a projection that would have meant an invite to a pedestrian bowl game. Preseason projections are meaningless as the Mustangs wrap preparations for the first 12-team College Football Playoff. SMU shattered expectations and the 11th-seeded Mustangs (11-2) are trying to continue that trend with
(Photo credit: Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) Seth Henigan has major credentials, but you never hear him mentioned among the top quarterbacks in the nation. He is surprisingly invisible considering he has four consecutive 3,000-yard seasons and has thrown more than 100 career touchdown passes. The often-overlooked Henigan will look to endhis career in style when No. 25 Memphis take
(Photo credit: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images) Big East conference play gets underway for No. 9 Marquette as it welcomes Butler to Milwaukee on Wednesday night. Both teams are looking to start conference play on a higher note after scuffling at the end of early nonconference play. Marquette (9-2) has lost two of three and Butler (7-4) has lost three in a row. The ranked Gold