Auburn vs. SMU
Auburn and SMU first met in 1940 and have played 3 times; SMU leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s SMU 3–0, and SMU has won the last 3. Share
- Auburn wins
- 0
- SMU wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1940
- Longest streak
- 3 SMU
- Current streak
- 3 SMU
- Last 10 meetings
- SMU 3–0
- Most recent
- 1968
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 9.7 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Auburn
- 0–2 Auburn’s record at home
- At SMU
- 1–0 SMU’s record at home
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

1940 · Evening star, Oct 20, 1940
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.
Every game
| Sep 21, 1968 | SMU 37, Auburn 28 | at Auburn | ||
| Oct 18, 1941 | SMU 20, Auburn 7 | at Auburn | ||
| Oct 19, 1940 | SMU 20, Auburn 13 | at SMU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.