There’s a next step to be had for SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee and the 2023 Mustangs, as well: can SMU win a conference title for the first time since 1984?
Here’s a look at the best- and worst-case scenarios for SMU and a win-loss prediction for the season.The Mustangs have had something in their favor for a while now. Their schedule is lacking some serious firepower from the year before. Gone are perennial conference contenders
. Tulane, the reigning conference champion, and UT-San Antonio, the back-to-back conference champion formerly of Conference USA, aren’t on SMU’s schedule.Advertisement There are two tough games in particular early on. SMU will head up to Norman in Week 2 to play an Oklahoma team looking to overcome an underwhelming first year for head coach Brent Venables. Then, in the final nonconference game, SMU will faceAs for the best-case scenario? SMU breezes through a weakened conference schedule and finds a way to upset either Oklahoma or TCU for its first 11-win season since Eric Dickerson was trouncing defenders.How would that happen? Let’s start with the defense.
That should be of great service to an offense flushed with skill position talent and a first-year starting quarterback that was SMU’s highest-rated recruit since the Death Penalty. will have a tough task ahead of him, especially early on, but he’s shown enough in games the last two seasons and in fall camp to inspire optimism.Let’s start with Stone here. Coaches will tell you that quarterbacks get too much praise and too much blame. It’s hard not to see a reality, from the outside perspective, where this doesn’t exist this season.
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