It is a 15-mile drive from the SMU campus to the Big 12 offices in Las Colinas, but the two might as well be on separate planets. It was to the Mustangs’ never-ending misery that the old amalgam of the SWC and Big Eight never wanted any part of the Dallas private school.

Kevin Jennings threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns as ninth-ranked SMU completed a sweep of its first Atlantic Coast Conference schedule with a 38-6 win over California.

The SMU Mustangs have already clinched a spot in the ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, N.C. next weekend. Who SMU will face, however, is not yet set. Let's take a look at what the Miami Hurricanes and Clemson Tigers need to do to make it to the ACC title game.

Rivalry weekend didn’t end as well for some of the other top-ranked teams in the nation as it did for SMU. While the Mustangs didn’t have an emotional game with a lot of history on the schedule, its matchup with California had high stakes,