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Most intriguing non-conference game: Texas Tech at SMU, Aug. 30. With a Friday night kickoff on college football's opening weekend, there will be few distractions for the debut of Kliff Kingsbury's Red Raiders. Equally as intriguing will be the SMU offense, now that Hal Mumme, of early Air Raid fame, has been added to the staff as passing game coordinator. June Jones, Hal Mumme and Kliff Kingsbury on the same field? Can't miss that.

#4 SMU will be put through the grinder well before conference play, facing Texas Tech, Texas A&M and TCU early in the season. How they fair in conference play will depend on how the Mustangs bounce back. I'm guessing the early tests help break in an inexperienced defense and the union of June Jones and Hal Mumme bring out the best in quarterback Garrett Gilbert.

May it all come true and finish 8-4 or better. Yes, I am a sunshiner, before the season starts, at least. And why not!

Such a wide range of predictions for SMU to finish from 4-8. I think nobody has a clue how this conference will play out.

As a long-time Sunshiner, we win at least 7, more likely eight. JJ and his staff are ready to make the next step up in class and performance. We are deeper than in the past and our conference mates have their own issues. If we mature faster, we will win more often than not.

Decent review.

I've got sunshiiiine, on a cloudy day.

PonyPlayer4 wrote:Such a wide range of predictions for SMU to finish from 4-8. I think nobody has a clue how this conference will play out.

Does anyone have an idea of how good our own team is? So hard to tell.