Duke vs. SMU
Duke and SMU first met in 1952 and have played 3 times; Duke leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Duke 2–1. Share
2030 at SMU. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
- Duke wins
- 2
- SMU wins
- 1
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1952
- Longest streak
- 2 Duke
- Current streak
- 1 SMU
- Last 10 meetings
- Duke 2–1
- Most recent
- 2024
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 5.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Duke
- 1–1 Duke’s record at home
- At SMU
- 0–1 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

1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 27, 1952
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
| Oct 26, 2024 | 22SMU 28, Duke 27 | at Duke | ||
| Oct 13, 1956 | Duke 14, 19SMU 6 | at Duke | ||
| Sep 26, 1952 | 19Duke 14, SMU 7 | at SMU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.