It’s been a long time since SMU experienced a three-year stretch like this.
To find the last time the Mustangs won at least two-thirds of their games in three consecutive seasons, you’ll have to go back to 1982 to 1984 — several years before the program’s infamous death penalty.
SMU has been a team on the rise lately, adapting to the modern game of college football with heavily utilization of the transfer portal and with clever marketing tactics, labeling itself as Dallas’ college football team, in order to become a stronger brand in one of the country’s most football-infested cities.