The game was sold out days in advance, a nod to the recent success in the series for SMU (2-1).
FORT WORTH, Texas — Sonny Dykes is now on the other side of the SMU-TCU rivalry, a 100-game series reinvigorated by two wins he had with the Mustangs before moving to become coach of the Big 12 program on the opposite end of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. marked SMU’s first back-to-back victories over the Horned Frogs since 1992-93, when the schools located just more than 40 miles apart were still together in the old Southwest Conference.
SMU receiver Rashee Rice made headlines going into last year’s DFW rivalry game when he said “no one comes to Texas for Fort Worth” and insinuated that TCU was afraid to play the Mustangs after the 2020 game scheduled for Dallas got canceled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rice went to high school near Fort Worth, but TCU didn’t offer him a scholarship.
The Mustangs had lost seven in a row against TCU, and 17 of 19 in the series, before those last two meetings. Now Dykes will try to get a win against so many of the players he recruited to help end the skid. There was a postgame scuffle following the Mustangs’ 42-34 victory last year in the 100th meeting when SMU players, including Rice, at TCU’s stadium, where they had also won 41-38 in 2019. Dykes apologized in his postgame comments.
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