Eight
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Yes. As I've written here many times, I think the series is already worth continuing. SMU getting a program upgrade and our being able to make it as a Pac 12-Big XII clash for supremacy in north Texas isn't going to make it less worth maintaining, even if the marketing is somewhat hyperbolic. I mean, what sports marketing isn't?
between 1930 and the breakup of the swc, smu and tcu teams who finished in the top 3 of the conference played 6 times, let me type that again, 6 times
they were:
1931 when smu finished 1st and tcu 2nd
1935 when smu finished 1st and tcu 2nd
1938 when tcu finished 1st and smu 2nd
1945 when smu finished 2nd and tcu finished t-3rd
1958 when #10 tcu finished 1st and #18 smu finished 2nd
1984 when smu t-1st and tcu t-3rd
after 1984, the next time smu had a winning season was the 4 season run under june jones (2009-2012) and then under sonny dykes
all the media hype, marketing, and conference tie in's aren't going to matter on a national level if the teams playing in it aren't winning regularly, seriously it has been 64 years since both teams were ranked going into this game and chopped wants to call us out for"pissing" on this rivalry