Inexplicable. Inacceptable. Incomprehensible.

The “U” is infuriatingly back.

Back like no one wanted. Back to its frustrating football of recent decades.

Back again with step-on-the-rake mistakes and self-inflicted pain in Saturday’s 26-20 loss at Southern Methodist that takes big-picture ideas like the ACC Championship Game and College Football Playoff off the table.

Lose once like this to No. 16 Louisville, as Miami did a couple of weeks ago, and you get your seasonal mulligan.

Lose again to an unranked SMU program that hadn’t beaten a Top-10 team in more than four decades and it doesn’t just lead to wading through an opposing crowd tearing down goalposts and celebrating like it’s 1983.

It also defines your season. Splat. Saturday was a second-guesser smorgasbord and everything M

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