Maryland vs. SMU
Maryland and SMU first met in 1961 and have played 3 times; Maryland leads the series 3–0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Maryland 3–0, and Maryland has won the last 3. Share
- Maryland wins
- 3
- SMU wins
- 0
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1961
- Longest streak
- 3 Maryland
- Current streak
- 3 Maryland
- Last 10 meetings
- Maryland 3–0
- Most recent
- 2022
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 7.3 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Maryland
- 2–0 Maryland’s record at home
- At SMU
- 0–1 SMU’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 1
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

1961 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1961
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 17, 2022 | Maryland 34, SMU 27 | at Maryland | ||
| Sep 22, 1962 | Maryland 7, SMU 0 | at Maryland | ||
| Sep 23, 1961 | Maryland 14, SMU 6 | at SMU |
Every game is listed as played on the field.