ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Tanner Mordecai doesn’t shy away from the future, or the games that inevitably rest on SMU’s horizon.
He will openly tell you that No. 5 Cincinnati, SMU’s largest obstacle to winning a conference championship, will be a difficult game to win. Before that, he knows SMU will have to wade through road games in Houston and Memphis in order to remain undefeated and stay ranked if it even wants a meaningful shot at the Bearcats.
But what gives Mordecai confidence that SMU can pull off those wins — a triplet of tough road games — is the idea that his team is gradually building to those games.