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SMU picked to finish fourth in the AAC West Division; UCF, Memphis favorites to win their divisions

Voters are expecting more of the same from SMU in Year Two of the Sonny Dykes era.

The Mustangs were chosen to finish fourth in the AAC West Division when the conference's preseason poll was unveiled on Tuesday. That's the same place SMU finished last year after posting a 4-4 conference record.

SMU did receive a first-place vote in the poll -- one of only three schools in the West Division and five schools in the entire conference to receive that distinction. But the Mustangs were left looking up at Memphis, Houston and Tulane in the West Division poll.