North Texas vs. SMU

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

1. North Texas’s biggest win2014: North Texas 43, SMU 6by 37 points
2. SMU’s biggest win1927: SMU 68, North Texas 0by 68 points
3. Upset1933: North Texas 7, SMU 0North Texas had a 21% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from North Texas’s side (Fouts 0–⁠3 against Morrison). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1940 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 6, 1940

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.

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  The 2018 game

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  The 2018 game

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  The 2018 game

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  The 2018 game

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  The 2017 game

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  The 2017 game

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game is listed as played on the field.

• North Texas vs. New Mexico State33 meetings, North Texas 22–⁠9–⁠2
• North Texas vs. UTEP31 meetings, North Texas 20–⁠8–⁠3
• North Texas vs. Tulsa27 meetings, North Texas 10–⁠17
• North Texas vs. Memphis22 meetings, North Texas 3–⁠19
• SMU vs. TCU103 meetings, SMU 42–⁠54–⁠7
• SMU vs. Rice91 meetings, SMU 49–⁠41–⁠1
• SMU vs. Baylor83 meetings, SMU 36–⁠40–⁠7
• SMU vs. Texas A&M81 meetings, SMU 29–⁠45–⁠7