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.

Scheduled 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

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s2–⁠0
2020s0–⁠1
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

End-of-season Elo ratings of Duke and SMU, 1952 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 1952 game

    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, 202422SMU 28, Duke 27at Duke
Oct 13, 1956Duke 14, 19SMU 6at Duke
Sep 26, 195219Duke 14, SMU 7at SMU

Every game is listed as played on the field.