It only makes sense...

[Samurai Stang]

After all, Rice beat Tulane.

[mustangxc]

Has nothing to do with that. We beat Houston and Houston beat Rice.

[SMU_Alumni11]

Houston and rice have a rivalry so that game ahould be tossed. Rivalry games can never be predicted.

[03Mustang]

http://www.myteamisbetterthanyourteam.com/

[Samurai Stang]

Houston and rice have a rivalry so that game ahould be tossed. Rivalry games can never be predicted.

Additionally, SMU's game with Houston was one of the strangest I have ever seen. It would be unrealistic to predict SMU's future success based off of it.

[Grant Carter]

SMU beat Memphis who beat rice, please provide your convoluted logic so we can all be enlightened as to why that game is not as relevant as the Tulane games.

[mustangxc]

I would argue that yesterday's game was pretty strange. We were up 7-6 with 2 minutes to go before the half and had possession of the ball. Somehow, GG manages to fumble the ball and they score a touchdown. Next, Rice is driving has a 4th and 10 gets called for a penalty and while I was hoping to decline it, we accept making it 3rd and 20 and Rice pulls off the first down for another touchdown. Then on the first drive in the second half Zach Line, our most reliable player, scores an apparent touchdown that gets reversed and called a fumble at the half yard line. All those events are pretty strange to me. While SMU v Rice is not SMU v TCU or Rice v Houston it is a rivalry game. I realize attendance isn't great, but they are our rivals like it or not. Anyway those 3 plays provided a 21 point swing in the game. Take those events away and it would have been close until the end so I am not buying it.

I am not defending the team or June Jones. This loss is the second unforgivable loss of the season, but you can't have it both ways. We clearly beat Houston and Rice clearly beat us.