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DMN: Monumental win over rival TCU could land SMU its first Top 25 ranking in decades
FORT WORTH - It was a week-long joke leading up to the SMU-TCU game that Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson was the lone coach to give SMU a Top 25 vote in the Coaches Poll. Dykes speculated that was the case, and Patterson didn't refute it.
By the time the Mustangs had scored 78 seconds into the game, that playful joke started to look almost like a prescient prediction. SMU played like a team that's hoping to take over a Top 25 spot for the first time since the 1980s - defeating its D-FW rival, 41-38.
"It's hard to put stuff in context, maybe during the season," head coach Sonny Dykes said after the game. "You don't really allow yourself to do it. ... But, you know, it's gratifying to beat a good football team. When you play against a really good team, and you find a way to win, you do it on the road, it's gratifying."
Read more at https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/s...land-smu-its-first-top-25-ranking-in-decades/
FORT WORTH - It was a week-long joke leading up to the SMU-TCU game that Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson was the lone coach to give SMU a Top 25 vote in the Coaches Poll. Dykes speculated that was the case, and Patterson didn't refute it.
By the time the Mustangs had scored 78 seconds into the game, that playful joke started to look almost like a prescient prediction. SMU played like a team that's hoping to take over a Top 25 spot for the first time since the 1980s - defeating its D-FW rival, 41-38.
"It's hard to put stuff in context, maybe during the season," head coach Sonny Dykes said after the game. "You don't really allow yourself to do it. ... But, you know, it's gratifying to beat a good football team. When you play against a really good team, and you find a way to win, you do it on the road, it's gratifying."
Read more at https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/s...land-smu-its-first-top-25-ranking-in-decades/
