What happened to SMU in north Texas was not just a beatdown. It was a shellacking of epic propositions by Wake Forest.

Wake Forest, the 13th-ranked team in the country, entered its road matchup against unranked SMU as a 2.5-point underdog and proved the oddsmakers just as wrong as College GameDay hosts Pat McAfee and Kirk Herbstreit.

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The two picked the surging SMU Mustangs during the College GameDay broadcast at Boise State, which featured Ian Johnson, the former Broncos running back who scored the game-winning two-point conversion against Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

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