Brett McMurphy Somehow Got the Scoop That SMU Was in the Playoff Before ESPN's Bracket Reveal Started

If you tuned in to ESPN's College Football Playoff bracket reveal show anxiously anticipating whether SMU or Alabama would get the final spot in the field, I hope you weren't on social media. Brett McMurphy got the scoop of the day and broke the news that SMU had received the last at-large bid one minute before ESPN went on the air.

McMurphy obviously has a very well-placed source somewhere, but I'm still not sure I know where it is. I lean that the mole is on the CFP committee, because if someone from ESPN leaked that to a reporter for a competitor, they'd be canned immediately upon being found out. But I also can't really imagine what the committee's motivation would be to have that break on Twitter before the show went on the air.

People were obviously upset at McMurphy for putting that out there, but he was just doing his job. Obviously if you're a reporter and you get that scoop, you're tweeting it. The person to be mad at is whoever was leaking from the shadows.

I don't think this was a big deal at all because it was only a couple minutes before the reveal and everyone expected SMU to be in anyway, but congrats to McMurphy for getting that scoop I guess. I hope Tate has recovered from his rage.