Kansas vs. SMU
Kansas and SMU first met in 1952 and have played 6 times; SMU leads the series 4–2. Over the last 6 meetings it’s SMU 4–2. Share
- Kansas wins
- 2
- SMU wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1952
- Longest streak
- 3 SMU
- Current streak
- 1 SMU
- Last 10 meetings
- SMU 4–2
- Most recent
- 2000
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 17.2 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Kansas
- 1–2 Kansas’s record at home
- At SMU
- 2–1 SMU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Kansas’s biggest win1952: Kansas 26, SMU 0by 26 points
- SMU’s biggest win1955: SMU 33, Kansas 14by 19 points
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

1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 25, 1953
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 2, 2000 | SMU 31, Kansas 17 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 2, 1999 | Kansas 27, SMU 9 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 22, 1955 | SMU 33, Kansas 14 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 23, 1954 | SMU 36, Kansas 18 | at SMU | ||
| Oct 24, 1953 | 13SMU 14, Kansas 6 | at Kansas | ||
| Oct 25, 1952 | 15Kansas 26, SMU 0 | at SMU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.