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Ha! Maybe Art Schlichter did shave points-probably worst game of his career
 
 
 
7–4–1, 339–216
October 7th • SMU • Ohio Stadium
The week before hosting SMU, Baylor visited Ohio State. The Bears picked off Schlichter twice in the first quarter and turned the turnovers into 14 quick points. With the early passing troubles, Hayes returned to what he knew best and the offense rushed 81 times for 373 yards. Ohio State won 34-28, Hayes's 200th career victory. 
SMU (2–1) arrived in Columbus after giving up 14 fourth quarter points┬áto┬áPenn State in a 26-21 loss at Beaver Stadium. The Mustangs gained a little confidence from the defeat knowing that the Nittany Lions blanked the Buckeyes earlier in the season. The right arm of sophomore quarterback Mike Ford led the way for SMU.
Ford completed 36-of-57 passes for 341 yards and a touchdown against Ohio State's secondary. The Mustangs had a nice offensive balance and rushed for 160 yards. They finished with 107 plays and 501 yards of total offense.
SMU led 21-14 at the half, but the Buckeyes scored 21 points in the third quarter to take a 35-21 lead into the fourth. Hayes began to substitute liberally, confident his team had the game in hand. The strategy backfired, however, and the Mustangs scored twice and tied the game at 35-35. No one scored again.
Schlichter had a difficult day passing as he completed 3-of-16 passes for 50 yards and threw four interceptions. On the last play of the game, he severely bruised his right shoulder.
With an injured quarterback and a defense that allowed 63 points to Baylor and SMU, Hayes' group readied to face Purdue and its effective passing attack.  

Wasn't there a crucial block in there against Texas?

Maybe PonyTE can tell us.

Stallion wrote:Ha! Maybe Art Schlichter did shave points-probably worst game of his career
 
 
 
7–4–1, 339–216
October 7th • SMU • Ohio Stadium
The week before hosting SMU, Baylor visited Ohio State. The Bears picked off Schlichter twice in the first quarter and turned the turnovers into 14 quick points. With the early passing troubles, Hayes returned to what he knew best and the offense rushed 81 times for 373 yards. Ohio State won 34-28, Hayes's 200th career victory. 
SMU (2–1) arrived in Columbus after giving up 14 fourth quarter points┬áto┬áPenn State in a 26-21 loss at Beaver Stadium. The Mustangs gained a little confidence from the defeat knowing that the Nittany Lions blanked the Buckeyes earlier in the season. The right arm of sophomore quarterback Mike Ford led the way for SMU.
Ford completed 36-of-57 passes for 341 yards and a touchdown against Ohio State's secondary. The Mustangs had a nice offensive balance and rushed for 160 yards. They finished with 107 plays and 501 yards of total offense.
SMU led 21-14 at the half, but the Buckeyes scored 21 points in the third quarter to take a 35-21 lead into the fourth. Hayes began to substitute liberally, confident his team had the game in hand. The strategy backfired, however, and the Mustangs scored twice and tied the game at 35-35. No one scored again.
Schlichter had a difficult day passing as he completed 3-of-16 passes for 50 yards and threw four interceptions. On the last play of the game, he severely bruised his right shoulder.
With an injured quarterback and a defense that allowed 63 points to Baylor and SMU, Hayes' group readied to face Purdue and its effective passing attack.  

At the end of that game, did SMU have a chance at winning? Did we attempt a long FG?

Treadway21 wrote:Wasn't there a crucial block in there against Texas?

Maybe PonyTE can tell us.

Hush

Yea I believe it was Eddie Garcia who missed about a 48 yard FG on last play of the game. I was in the endzone bowl and thought it was going to be good but he missed it by only a few feet-it was definitely long enough. Ponyte who was on the Field said he missed it by more. Sometimes hard to tell with those angles

here's an excerpt that said it was "just wide"-from a subscription site teaser

"Ford got his team into scoring position one more time after David Hill intercepted another Schlichter pass on the Southern Methodist 37 with a minute to play. Ford's 21- yard pass to Elton Garrett got the Mustangs to the Ohio State 30, but Eddie Garcia's 47-yard field-goal attempt with seven seconds remaining was just wide of the uprights"

Chuck Hixson was mentioned above. I'd put what I remember as his first start as a RS sophomore as a memorable SMU game. SMU played away at Auburn and won. War Eagle faithful still talk about that game including the very enthusiastic family whose younger daughter married one of my sons.

I still remember that Auburn game. I rode my bike as a 10 year from North Dallas to the Highland Park YMCA on Preston. Then stopped off at that Pharmacy across the street. A whole group of old-timers were listening to the away game which was the season opener and since my Mom was a Professor at SMU and I had been going to games for a couple of years and Jerry Levias was already my hero, I decided to listen with the old-timers. We won something like 38-27 and everybody was pretty surprised and happy to beat an SEC team. EXCITEMENT '68 was on! (SMU's media slogan that year)

I heard that Auburn game on radio myself and since it was against an SEC team it was a local station (in Atlanta) instead of a distant station with uncertain clarity especially in the day time.

I dislike the W - L results the last few years much as any SMU fan but the TV coverage has been fun.

Didn't know that Lance starting was a surprise since I remember the students knew about it - we talked about it after class at Caruth the Friday before the game and felt the upset coming on. This was also when ESPN was just taking off (as well as cable - couldn't believe we had 15 channels whoopee) and the best games were replayed (no DVR of course) late at night for fillers since ESPN had to go 24hrs. We got up at 2AM during the following week to re-watch the game...it was great.

you mentioned Excitement' 68, every few years I post this for us older guys

The 1978 team with Mike Ford also beat Baylor in Waco by scoring four touchdowns in the 4th quarter to win 28-21. I believe all four TDs went to Emmanual Tolbert. After our last TD Baylor was driving late when a pass was intercepted by Putt Choate who saved the game. One of my top 5 SMU football games.

Dairy Crampus wrote:Didn't know that Lance starting was a surprise since I remember the students knew about it - we talked about it after class at Caruth the Friday before the game and felt the upset coming on. This was also when ESPN was just taking off (as well as cable - couldn't believe we had 15 channels whoopee) and the best games were replayed (no DVR of course) late at night for fillers since ESPN had to go 24hrs. We got up at 2AM during the following week to re-watch the game...it was great.

It wasn't a surprise in that Lance was named the starter earlier in the week after Mike didn't play well at Baylor the week before. But it was a bit of a surprise when the announcement was made as Mike had started so many games starting with his freshman year. A DMN columnist actually wrote a front page sports section column entitled "Dear Lance" in which the columnist (forget which one) predicted that Lance would be eaten alive by Belo's beloved Longhorns.

Did Mike Ford have a bum knee that limited his performance when Lance took over?

1)Ford suffered knee injury in prior year missing half the season. Jim Bob Taylor replaced him . He was playing in 1980 with a big brace while recovering-never was too fast so it limited our running game. In essence McIllhenny's emergence signaled a change from one of Country's top passing teams in Ford's first 2 years to the Nation's top running program in the Pony Express. Ford was still a good QB but Meyer was smart enough to realize he was a square peg in a round hole because he wasn't fast enough

2) actually Ford played pretty well at Baylor but had a crucial fumble at the 7 yard line. There actually was a UH game that we lost 13-11 in Dallas between the Baylor loss and before the UT game