We are told that the house always wins. We are told that you can never win at gambling. But what goes unspecified is that those adages only apply to most situations — but not all. Specifically, the casino floor has clean,

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips believes SMU should be in the College Football Playoff field no matter what happens in Saturday’s conference championship game against Clemson. He also said Monday that Miami (Fla.) should be in the field as an at-large team.

OK, so we know SMU and Clemson will meet in the ACC championship game on Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern time in Charlotte, North Carolina.  We also know SMU is a sl