SMU 2015 Team Scouting Report

[Harry]

Rewind back to 2013, SMU had been to four straight bowls and when Garrett Gilbert was lost with an injury SMU is 5-5 with two games remaining to win one and reach a 5th straight bowl and had given teams like Cincinnati, Rutgers, and Texas Tech real challenges in 2013 in losses before fading late. In short, they were not any elite team but certainly decent enough to not overlook.

forward one year: In 2014 SMU was literally at the bottom of the FBS barrell. With an absolutely brutal non-conference schedule that included Baylor, A&M, and TCU prior to AAC play the Mustangs went 0-11 before beating a bad UConn team to notch their first win. The Mustangs lost their coach two games in, went several games without scoring, and with an average of score 11-41 the Mustangs crashed hard in 2014 for a team that only lost a handful of key contributors from 2013. The big culprit behind SMU's massive drop off was consistently failing to recruit the state of Texas and DFW specifically. The Mustangs lacked the talented standouts like Margus Hunt, Garrett Gilbert, Cole Beasley, Kenneth Acker, Sterling Moore, and others who carried their team from 2009-2013.

read more:  http://baylor.247sports.com/Article/S11-SMU-Preview-Part-1-New-Defense-38858720

 

Edited August 27, 2015 by Harry