Howard Payne vs. SMU
Howard Payne and SMU first met in 1917 and have played 8 times; SMU leads the series 5–2–1. Over the last 8 meetings it’s SMU 5–2. Share
- Howard Payne wins
- 2
- SMU wins
- 5
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1917
- Longest streak
- 4 SMU
- Current streak
- 1 SMU
- Last 10 meetings
- SMU 5–2
- Most recent
- 1930
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 14.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At SMU
- 5–2–1 SMU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 5
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Howard Payne’s biggest win1917: Howard Payne 14, SMU 7by 7 points
- SMU’s biggest win1927: SMU 32, Howard Payne 0by 32 points
- Upset1919: Howard Payne 14, SMU 9Howard Payne had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1917: Howard Payne 14, SMU 7Howard Payne had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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
1927 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 2, 1927
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 27, 1930 | SMU 26, Howard Payne 0 | at SMU | ||
| Sep 28, 1929 | SMU 13, Howard Payne 13 | at SMU | ||
| Sep 29, 1928 | SMU 31, Howard Payne 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 1, 1927 | SMU 32, Howard Payne 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 1, 1921 | SMU 3, Howard Payne 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 15, 1920 | SMU 14, Howard Payne 0 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 25, 1919 | Howard Payne 14, SMU 9 | at SMU | ||
| Nov 10, 1917 | Howard Payne 14, SMU 7 | at SMU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.