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SMU announces 2006 football slate
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Feb. 9, 2006

DALLAS (SMU) - The 2006 SMU Football schedule has been finalized, Conference USA announced Thursday, February 9.

The Mustangs will open the season on the road, with trips to Lubbock and Denton, Texas, to face Texas Tech on Sept. 2 and North Texas on Sept. 9.

SMU will then return home to host Sam Houston and Arkansas State on Sept. 16 and 23, respectively, at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

The Mustangs then open league play with back-to-back road trips to Tulane (Sept. 30) and UTEP (Oct. 7).

Marshall makes its first-ever trip to Dallas on Oct. 14 for SMU's C-USA home opener before the Mustangs stampede east to face East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., on Oct. 21.

SMU will then host UAB on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 6:30 p.m. (CST) in a nationally-televised ESPN2 match-up.

Back-to-back home games against 2005 bowl team Houston (Nov. 11) and 2005 C-USA Champion Tulsa (Nov. 18) wrap up the home slate before SMU travels to Space City to battle Rice in the regular-season finale on Nov. 25.

The Conference USA Championship game is slated for Dec. 2.

For season tickets, call the SMU Ticket Office at 214-SMU-GAME or log on to SMUMustangs.com.

2006 SMU Football
Sept. 2 at Texas Tech Lubbock, Texas
Sept. 9 at North Texas Denton, Texas
Sept. 16 Sam Houston Dallas, Texas
Sept. 23 Arkansas State Dallas, Texas
Sept. 30 at Tulane New Orleans, La.
Oct. 7 at UTEP El Paso, Texas
Oct. 14 Marshall Dallas, Texas
Oct. 21 at East Carolina Greenville, NC
Oct. 31 UAB Dallas, Texas
Nov. 11 Houston Dallas, Texas
Nov. 18 Tulsa Dallas, Texas
Nov. 25 at Rice Houston, Texas

You all did notice the TUESDAY Nite Nationally televised Game with UAB

Tuesday? Well, nat'l tv is nat'l tv.

And we play eight weeks straight. I guess you could say nine, because we play that Tuesday.

Stallion wrote:You all did notice the TUESDAY Nite Nationally televised Game with UAB

Yup .... although we do have 10 days on either side of that game, so hopefully that will help.

I'm gonna try to be at Tulsa. Father-In-Law doesn't like football, so it will be the perfect day escape.

also Note SMU v Tulane is scheduled for September 30 and the Superdome has announced a September 24th opening.(I believe)

That Tuesday game is also Halloween. That will be tough on those with kids, but hey we can't complain about national tv.

Halloween...everyone deck out in costume and party hard in the stands. All sorts of possibilities. Next day's Sports Headline...SMU gives UAB a scary Halloween. All Tricks and NO Treats.

BTW, everyone is so hyper these days about kids going trick or treating. Hand out treats at the stadium...provide a prize for best costume...one for kids and one for adults. Man the possibilities are awesome.

That Tuesday game is also Halloween. That will be tough on those with kids, but hey we can't complain about national tv.

SMU needs to start hyping Halloween at Ford as soon as school gets in this fall.

me@smu wrote:SMU needs to start hyping Halloween at Ford as soon as school gets in this fall.

An excellent idea. maybe do some sort of thing with kids like let kids in free with a costume. they could make a haunted house on the practice field or something. gotta sell...gotta sell!

PK wrote:Halloween...everyone deck out in costume and party hard in the stands. All sorts of possibilities. Next day's Sports Headline...SMU gives UAB a scary Halloween. All Tricks and NO Treats.

BTW, everyone is so hyper these days about kids going trick or treating. Hand out treats at the stadium...provide a prize for best costume...one for kids and one for adults. Man the possibilities are awesome.

Good ideas. Maybe deck out the "Mustang Stables" in Halloween decorations?

me@smu wrote:SMU needs to start hyping Halloween at Ford as soon as school gets in this fall.

Yeah, get the students or at least the freshmen involved in some kind of contest with the award or prize to be given out at the end of the game (that way they have to stay for the whole game).

Oh I fear disaster unless somebody gets off their collective asses to publicize. Even for the rabid fan its hard to turn down a kid who has his own idea of what he wants to do on Halloween. Plus SMU College kids going to a Football Game instead of a Party? And to top things off the starting time of 6:30 on a Work Day in a game off Central is going to be brutal.

Stallion wrote:Oh I fear disaster unless somebody gets off their collective asses to publicize. Even for the rabid fan its hard to turn down a kid who has his own idea of what he wants to do on Halloween. Plus SMU College kids going to a Football Game instead of a Party?

They might be up for showing everyone on National TV that they know how to throw a stadium party. You are right...got to publicize!