SMU and North Texas battled as non-conference rivals consecutively from every year to 2014 to 2022. But this year’s contest was different.
The Mustangs and Mean Green share a conference for the first time ever, as SMU’s final season in the AAC conveniently overlaps with North Texas’ inaugural one. So for the only time ever, this rivalry came with conference title race stakes, as SMU eyes its first and last entry into the AAC Championship Game.
That objective was made much more feasible Friday night as the Mustangs stampeded the Mean Green 45-21 in a battle between teams from the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.