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.

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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1940s0–⁠2
1960s0–⁠1
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Auburn and SMU, 1940 on130015001700194019501960197019801990200020102020

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

  • The Evening star's story of the 1940 game: Football Scores Continued From Page B-6)

    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, 1968SMU 37, Auburn 28at Auburn
Oct 18, 1941SMU 20, Auburn 7at Auburn
Oct 19, 1940SMU 20, Auburn 13at SMU

Every game is listed as played on the field.