Army vs. SMU

Army and SMU first met in 1928 and have played 3 times; Army leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Army 3–⁠0, and Army has won the last 3. Share

Army wins: 3
SMU wins: 0
Ties: 0
First meeting: 1928
Longest streak: 3 Army
Current streak: 3 Army
Last 10 meetings: Army 3–⁠0
Most recent: 2010

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
	’0	’1	’2	’3	’4	’5	’6	’7	’8	’9	W–L
1920s											1–⁠0
1960s											1–⁠0
2010s											1–⁠0

Average margin: 7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army: 1–⁠0 Army’s record at home
At SMU: 0–⁠1 SMU’s record at home
Neutral sites: 1–⁠0 Army first

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

1928 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 7, 1928

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.