Baylor vs. SMU
Baylor and SMU first met in 1916 and have played 83 times; Baylor leads the series 40–36–7. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Baylor 10–0, and Baylor has won the last 14. Share
- Baylor wins
- 40
- SMU wins
- 36
- Ties
- 7
- First meeting
- 1916
- Longest streak
- 14 Baylor
- Current streak
- 14 Baylor
- Last 10 meetings
- Baylor 10–0
- Most recent
- 2025
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 1–1–2 | ||||||||||
| 1920s | 3–5–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 4–5–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–6–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 5–4–1 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 6–4 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 4–6 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 3–5 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 6–0 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2010s | 4–0 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 4 meetings: Baylor 4, SMU 0
- Average margin
- 14.1 points; 33 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Baylor
- 21–16–3 Baylor’s record at home
- At SMU
- 20–19–4 SMU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 19
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Baylor’s biggest win1916: Baylor 61, SMU 0by 61 points
- SMU’s biggest win1946: SMU 35, Baylor 0by 35 points
- Upset2025: Baylor 48, SMU 45Baylor had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1950: Baylor 3, SMU 0Baylor had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1957: SMU 14, Baylor 7SMU had a 34% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1949: Baylor 35, SMU 26No. 15 Baylor at No. 10 SMU
- Ranked showdown1954: Baylor 33, SMU 21No. 20 Baylor at No. 11 SMU
- Ranked showdown1985: Baylor 21, SMU 14No. 19 Baylor at No. 16 SMU
Coach against coach
| Years | Baylor | Series | SMU |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917–1919 | Bubs Mosley | 0–1–2 | J. Rix |
| 1922–1925 | Frank Bridges | 1–2–1 | Ray Morrison |
| 1926–1934 | Morley Jennings | 4–4–1 | Ray Morrison |
| 1935–1940 | Morley Jennings | 1–5 | Madison Bell |
| 1941–1946 | Frank Kimbrough | 0–3 | Madison Bell |
| 1947–1949 | Bob Woodruff | 1–2 | Madison Bell |
| 1950–1952 | George Sauer | 2–0–1 | H.N. Russell |
| 1953–1955 | George Sauer | 2–1 | Chalmer Woodward |
| 1959–1961 | John Bridgers | 2–1 | Bill Meek |
| 1962–1968 | John Bridgers | 4–3 | Hayden Fry |
| 1969–1971 | Bill Beall | 0–3 | Hayden Fry |
| 1973–1975 | Grant Teaff | 1–2 | Dave Smith |
| 1976–1981 | Grant Teaff | 4–2 | Ron Meyer |
| 1982–1986 | Grant Teaff | 1–4 | Bobby Collins |
| 1993–1995 | Chuck Reedy | 3–0 | Tom Rossley |
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Baylor’s side (Mosley 0–1–2 against Rix). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
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.
Stars of the series
Biggest days
| Sawyer Robertson Baylor | 34 of 50, 440 yards, 4 TD | 2025 Passing | |
| Seth Russell Baylor | 15 of 30, 376 yards, 5 TD, 1 INT | 2015 Passing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
1922 · The Birmingham age-herald, Dec 1, 1922
1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 19, 1930
1931 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 15, 1931
1939 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Nov 27, 1939
1942 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 23, 1942
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.
On television
| 2025 | The CW | 1.0 million viewers |
Viewers: Nielsen, as compiled by nschultz7’s ratings tracker.
Every game
| Sep 6, 2025 | Baylor 48, 17SMU 45 | at SMU | ||
| Sep 10, 2016 | 23Baylor 40, SMU 13 | at Baylor | ||
| Sep 4, 2015 | 4Baylor 56, SMU 21 | at SMU | ||
| Aug 31, 2014 | 10Baylor 45, SMU 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Sep 2, 2012 | Baylor 59, SMU 24 | at Baylor | ||
| Sep 3, 2005 | Baylor 28, SMU 23 | at SMU | ||
| Sep 13, 2003 | Baylor 10, SMU 7 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 11, 1995 | Baylor 48, SMU 7 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 8, 1994 | Baylor 44, SMU 10 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 9, 1993 | Baylor 31, SMU 12 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 3, 1992 | Baylor 49, SMU 7 | at Baylor | ||
| Sep 28, 1991 | 12Baylor 45, SMU 7 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 13, 1990 | Baylor 52, SMU 17 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 14, 1989 | Baylor 49, SMU 3 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 11, 1986 | SMU 27, 13Baylor 21 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 12, 1985 | 19Baylor 21, 16SMU 14 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 13, 1984 | 7SMU 24, Baylor 20 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 8, 1983 | 13SMU 42, Baylor 26 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 9, 1982 | 6SMU 22, Baylor 19 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 10, 1981 | 14SMU 37, Baylor 20 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 11, 1980 | 18Baylor 32, 20SMU 28 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 13, 1979 | Baylor 24, SMU 21 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 14, 1978 | SMU 28, Baylor 21 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 8, 1977 | Baylor 9, SMU 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Oct 9, 1976 | Baylor 27, SMU 20 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 22, 1975 | SMU 34, Baylor 31 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 23, 1974 | 16Baylor 31, SMU 14 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 24, 1973 | SMU 38, Baylor 22 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 25, 1972 | SMU 12, Baylor 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 20, 1971 | SMU 20, Baylor 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 21, 1970 | SMU 23, Baylor 10 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 22, 1969 | SMU 12, Baylor 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 23, 1968 | SMU 33, Baylor 17 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 25, 1967 | SMU 16, Baylor 10 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 19, 1966 | SMU 24, Baylor 22 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 20, 1965 | Baylor 20, SMU 10 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 21, 1964 | Baylor 16, SMU 13 | at SMU | ||
| Dec 7, 1963 | Baylor 20, SMU 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 24, 1962 | Baylor 17, SMU 13 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 25, 1961 | Baylor 31, SMU 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 19, 1960 | Baylor 20, SMU 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 21, 1959 | SMU 30, Baylor 14 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 22, 1958 | SMU 33, Baylor 29 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 23, 1957 | SMU 14, Baylor 7 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 24, 1956 | 16Baylor 26, SMU 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 19, 1955 | SMU 12, Baylor 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 20, 1954 | 20Baylor 33, 11SMU 21 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 21, 1953 | Baylor 27, SMU 21 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 22, 1952 | SMU 7, Baylor 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 24, 1951 | 10Baylor 14, SMU 13 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 25, 1950 | Baylor 3, 15SMU 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 19, 1949 | 15Baylor 35, 10SMU 26 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 20, 1948 | 10SMU 13, Baylor 6 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 22, 1947 | 3SMU 10, Baylor 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 23, 1946 | SMU 35, Baylor 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 24, 1945 | SMU 34, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 20, 1942 | Baylor 6, SMU 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 22, 1941 | SMU 14, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 23, 1940 | 18SMU 7, Baylor 4 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 25, 1939 | SMU 21, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 19, 1938 | SMU 21, Baylor 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 13, 1937 | SMU 13, 13Baylor 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 21, 1936 | Baylor 13, SMU 7 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 23, 1935 | SMU 10, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 24, 1934 | Baylor 13, SMU 6 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 25, 1933 | Baylor 13, SMU 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 19, 1932 | Baylor 19, SMU 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 14, 1931 | SMU 6, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 18, 1930 | Baylor 14, SMU 14 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 16, 1929 | SMU 25, Baylor 6 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 17, 1928 | Baylor 2, SMU 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 12, 1927 | SMU 34, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 13, 1926 | SMU 31, Baylor 3 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 14, 1925 | SMU 7, Baylor 6 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 15, 1924 | SMU 7, Baylor 7 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 29, 1923 | SMU 16, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 30, 1922 | Baylor 24, SMU 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 26, 1921 | Baylor 28, SMU 0 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 27, 1920 | SMU 0, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 22, 1919 | Baylor 7, SMU 7 | at Baylor | ||
| Nov 9, 1918 | SMU 14, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 17, 1917 | SMU 0, Baylor 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 7, 1916 | Baylor 61, SMU 0 | at Baylor |
Every game is listed as played on the field.