Ok SMU Fans I wanna hear "YOUR" best Pony Story

[ponyscott]

The 1983 Game was at Texas Stadium and SMU lost 15-9 to the 2nd ranked Horns while we were 9th ranked....BTW
This was from Mack Browns's greatest Texas wins:


GREAT GAME
#2 Texas 15, #9 SMU 12
Saturday, October 22, 1983
Texas Stadium (Irving, Texas)
No. 2 Texas took sole possession of the Southwest Conference lead with a 15-12 win at the No. 9 Mustangs. Both SMU and Texas entered the game with undefeated 5-0 records and with nationally-ranked defenses. Texas had to come from behind two times and survive six turnovers en route to the win. The teams traded field goals throughout the first three quarters before Todd Dodge came off the bench to engineer a 62-yard scoring drive. Dodge's 7-yard touchdown pass to Bill Boy Bryant put the Longhorns up 13-6 early in the fourth quarter. SMU then drove 80 yards to tie the game, but Jerry Gray was able to bat down SMU QB Lance McIlhenny's two-point conversion pass attempt. UT added a safety for the final margin. The win snapped SMU's 21-game unbeaten streak.

So you say that SMU lost 15-9, but the write up says that SMU lost 15-12 despite having tied it up at 13-13. Confusing.

If I remember correctly (I was there, but I was in the 3rd grade so I might have missed something) what actually happened is that SMU scored a td to pull to 13-12 and went for 2 rather than kick the extra point for a tie.

My bad.... my stupid memorythought it was 15-9 and it was actually 15-12...and the write up was from UT ( you know how they mess things up) so it was 13-6 when SMU TRIED to go ahead after the TD, missed the 2 point conversion for the lead and Texas later added the safety to make the final 15-12

[ALEX LIFESON]

Bingo!

[Wuba]

Texas was up 13-6, SMU scored to make it 13-12, 2 point conversion failed. Texas sacked Lance with less than a minute to play, for the final score of 15-12.

Remind me how much time was left when SMU went for 2? Was Collins criticized for that decision? What was the reasoning? My 3rd grade logic at the time was that he just thought he could make it, but I am guessing there was more to it than that and I do not recall ever looking back into it.

[carolina stang]

The 1980 game against Texas (20-6) had to be #1 for me.

82 when we beat them again in Austin was stellar as well.

During the 1985 game, the Ponies were pissed. Fred Akers had said due to our probation, our games shouldn't have counted. SMU put on a blistering 44-14 win. The first sentence in the story the next morning in the Dallas Morning News was, "Fred, you should never have said a word."

Though it wasn't a close game, the TCU game and the dawn of Mustang Mania in the fall of 78. It was my first game as a freshman and we cleared the bench. D.K. Perry ran back the opening kickoff and Mike Ford didn't play much if at all after the third quarter after a huge game. Jim Bob Taylor and Glen Stearman also played quarterback late.

[Treadway21]

Remind me how much time was left when SMU went for 2?

If I remember correctly we needed to win to go to the cotton bowl. We had gone the year before so if we tied Texas they would go since it had been longer since they had been. I may be mistaken, but that is how I remember it.

[Mexmustang]

The '82 game is Austin...went to a barbeque joint outside of town, heard a bunch of UT fans complaining about Akers play calling, one of them was the father of UT's qb. They were asking for Akers head. Maybe the same barbeque joint? But I thought it was the County Line.

[pelcowboys]

Without question...

My senior year, I was in the student section when SMU beat TCU to become "the best team in Texas." There's nothing to compare the euphoria to doing what seemed impossible AND seeing it live. My nerves were completely shot by the end of the game, because I was, honestly, just waiting for something bad to happen and momentum to swing in the Frogs' direction. And then, the adrenaline rush of running onto the field and seeing the ecstasy of the students, players, coaches, and fans. Really, I did a terrible job describing how great it was, but those that were there know what I'm talking about.

In second place, the fourth down sack by Thompson this year to give SMU bowl eligibility. I was running all over the club section trying to find people to slap high-5 or hug. It was awesome and extremely surreal.

[Stallion]

SMU tied Arkansas with 2:51 on the clock-but here's where the coaching comes in-SMU had 3 timeouts. Remember SMU would go to Cotton Bowl with a tie, Arkansas had to score to go to the Cotton Bowl and couldn't afford to settle for tie and there was no OT back then. So SMU could reasonably assume that Arkansas would have to be agressive and pass to win and if they could stop Arkansas on downs they would get ball back with significant time on the clock.

[ALEX LIFESON]

Remind me how much time was left when SMU went for 2?

If I remember correctly we needed to win to go to the cotton bowl. We had gone the year before so if we tied Texas they would go since it had been longer since they had been. I may be mistaken, but that is how I remember it.

Bingo!

[Wuba]

Remind me how much time was left when SMU went for 2?

If I remember correctly we needed to win to go to the cotton bowl. We had gone the year before so if we tied Texas they would go since it had been longer since they had been. I may be mistaken, but that is how I remember it.

Bingo!

6th game of the year seems earlier than most people would make that decision, but I like the aggressive move.

[peruna81]

1966 at the Cotton Bowl, watching LeVias return the kick against Baylor, then watching in horror as Baylor fights back in the final minutes to take the lead. Dennis Partee lined up the game winner and hit the field goal to win it for the Mustangs...I had the privilege of sticking my tongue out (in 1966, a high offense) at a weenie Baylor kid about my age (8) who had bragged all game long, and then began taunting/laughing at me and my dad toward the end of the game as Baylor went ahead...he rightfully ended up in tears, and is now probably a deacon at First Baptist, Dallas...in a twist of God's humor, I became a Baptist minister, and am now surrounded by Baylorites..

My all-time SMU moment was in the early 60's, getting a pair of shoes at a sporting goods store on Lovers Lane, and having my mother introduce me to Doak Walker, who happened to be in the store that bore his name...she had been good friends with his girlfriend (later wife) while she (mom)was a stewardess with Braniff, posting out of Dallas Love Field..I remember him as a one of those 'aura' folks you sometimes meet...you know they are a 'somebody', but are either too ignorant or young to grasp the full measure of the man. I of course had very little understanding of his stature in sports then, but it birthed an interest in SMU that has never stopped.

[Mexmustang]

Two additional memories, any game Levias played, but especially the year we won the conference, every game was a nail bitter, and it seemed Jerry had a big play in evey one of them. The second was in Austin, 1966, Bill Bradley, UT's "big headed" qb fumbles mid-field, with about one minute to play, we take possession, Dennis Partee kicks the winning field goal with seconds to spare (picture of the ball slicing the uprights and the game clock in the backgound was in the year book that year). We went down to Austin in a rented plane, piloted by one of my classmates that left school (grades) earlier that fall and completed his pilot's liscense. Lucky to even see the game.

[Stallion]

I went all of those games-this was still the most thrilling game in modern SMU History. Miracles really do come true

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1PccepNHQ

[mustang1108]

One of my favorite memories was when I was a little kid and my family traveled to Shreveport to watch SMU beat Arkansas in 97. This was the game where I grew to love SMU greats like Ramon Flanigan and Donte Womack. That weekend we stayed with my moms roommate from SMU and her family who lived in Shreveport. Since then both children of my moms roommate went to SMU and I am now a student at SMU. Unfortunatly my little brother is going to break the trend when he goes off to Alabama next fall.

[Balatro Diabolus Ex]

Remind me how much time was left when SMU went for 2?

If I remember correctly we needed to win to go to the cotton bowl. We had gone the year before so if we tied Texas they would go since it had been longer since they had been. I may be mistaken, but that is how I remember it.

Bingo!

No, no Bingo. If we had tied that game we would have been in the Cotton Bowl that year. We went for two mainly because Collins had taken so much heat after the Arkansas game the year before, for settling for the tie.

Texas was in first place most of the year, but had a major collapse at the end of the season. They lost to Houston, and then were upset by both Baylor and A&M at the end of the year. They also lost their bowl game (52-17 to Iowa), so they lost 4 of their last 5 games. If we had tied Texas, though, we would have been in the Cotton Bowl, Houston had 2 losses (Arkansas and TCU) and Texas had 3 conference losses. We would have finished with 1 loss (Houston) and 1 tie (Texas) and we would have been in the Cotton Bowl.