SMU Mustangs Poll History

Seasons: 106 (1916 to 2023)

Record (W-L-T): 534-561-54

Adjusted Record (W-L-T): 530-555-54

Conferences: American, CUSA, WAC, SWC, Ind

Conf. Championships: 11

Bowl Record: 19 Bowls, 7-11-1, .395 W-L% (Major Bowls)

Ranked in AP Poll: 8 Times (Preseason), 12 Times (Final), 183 Weeks (Total), 2 Weeks at #1

Ranked in CFP Rankings: 1 Time (Final), 3 Weeks (Total)

Heisman Winners: Doak Walker (1948)

Stadium: Gerald J. Ford Stadium (cap. 32,000)

Location: Dallas, Texas

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AP Polls

AP Polls Table
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
1	2023	14	2023-11-26	25
2	2023	15	2023-12-03	17	25	8
3	2023	16	Final	22	17	5
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
4	2021	6	2021-10-03	24
5	2021	7	2021-10-10	23	24	1
6	2021	8	2021-10-17	21	23	2
7	2021	9	2021-10-24	19	21	2
8	2021	10	2021-10-31	23	19	4
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
9	2020	5	2020-10-04	18
10	2020	6	2020-10-11	17	18	1
11	2020	7	2020-10-18	16	17	1
12	2020	8	2020-10-25	22	16	6
13	2020	9	2020-11-02	18	22	4
14	2020	10	2020-11-08	19	18	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
15	2019	6	2019-09-29	24
16	2019	7	2019-10-06	21	24	3
17	2019	8	2019-10-14	19	21	2
18	2019	9	2019-10-21	16	19	3
19	2019	10	2019-10-27	15	16	1
20	2019	11	2019-11-03	23	15	8
21	2019	12	2019-11-10	20	23	3
22	2019	13	2019-11-17	21	20	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
23	1986	7	1986-10-14	20
24	1986	8	1986-10-21	18	20	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
25	1985	1	Preseason	3	NA	—
26	1985	2	1985-09-03	3	3
27	1985	3	1985-09-10	6	3	3
28	1985	4	1985-09-17	5	6	1
29	1985	5	1985-09-24	6	5	1
30	1985	6	1985-10-01	3	6	3
31	1985	7	1985-10-08	16	3	13
32	1985	10	1985-10-29	20
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
33	1984	1	Preseason	15	NA	—
34	1984	2	1984-09-04	15	15
35	1984	3	1984-09-11	14	15	1
36	1984	4	1984-09-18	13	14	1
37	1984	5	1984-09-25	11	13	2
38	1984	6	1984-10-02	10	11	1
39	1984	7	1984-10-09	7	10	3
40	1984	8	1984-10-16	6	7	1
41	1984	9	1984-10-23	14	6	8
42	1984	10	1984-10-30	19	14	5
43	1984	11	1984-11-06	17	19	2
44	1984	12	1984-11-13	16	17	1
45	1984	13	1984-11-20	11	16	5
46	1984	14	1984-11-27	10	11	1
47	1984	15	1984-12-04	10	10
48	1984	16	Final	8	10	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
49	1983	1	Preseason	19	NA	—
50	1983	2	1983-09-05	15	19	4
51	1983	3	1983-09-12	18	15	3
52	1983	4	1983-09-19	18	18
53	1983	5	1983-09-26	13	18	5
54	1983	6	1983-10-03	13	13
55	1983	7	1983-10-10	12	13	1
56	1983	8	1983-10-17	9	12	3
57	1983	9	1983-10-24	10	9	1
58	1983	10	1983-10-31	8	10	2
59	1983	11	1983-11-07	7	8	1
60	1983	12	1983-11-14	6	7	1
61	1983	13	1983-11-21	6	6
62	1983	14	1983-11-28	6	6
63	1983	15	1983-12-05	6	6
64	1983	16	Final	12	6	6
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
65	1982	1	Preseason	6	NA	—
66	1982	2	1982-09-06	8	6	2
67	1982	3	1982-09-13	6	8	2
68	1982	4	1982-09-20	6	6
69	1982	5	1982-09-27	7	6	1
70	1982	6	1982-10-04	6	7	1
71	1982	7	1982-10-11	5	6	1
72	1982	8	1982-10-18	4	5	1
73	1982	9	1982-10-25	4	4
74	1982	10	1982-11-01	2	4	2
75	1982	11	1982-11-08	2	2
76	1982	12	1982-11-15	2	2
77	1982	13	1982-11-22	4	2	2
78	1982	14	1982-11-29	4	4
79	1982	15	1982-12-06	4	4
80	1982	16	Final	2	4	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
81	1981	4	1981-09-21	20
82	1981	5	1981-09-28	15	20	5
83	1981	6	1981-10-05	14	15	1
84	1981	7	1981-10-12	10	14	4
85	1981	8	1981-10-19	8	10	2
86	1981	9	1981-10-26	13	8	5
87	1981	10	1981-11-02	10	13	3
88	1981	11	1981-11-09	8	10	2
89	1981	12	1981-11-16	6	8	2
90	1981	13	1981-11-23	6	6
91	1981	14	1981-11-30	5	6	1
92	1981	15	Final	5	5
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
93	1980	6	1980-10-06	20
94	1980	9	1980-10-27	19
95	1980	10	1980-11-03	18	19	1
96	1980	11	1980-11-10	18	18
97	1980	13	1980-11-24	20
98	1980	14	1980-12-01	19	20	1
99	1980	15	1980-12-08	19	19
100	1980	16	Final	20	19	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
101	1979	2	1979-09-10	20
102	1979	3	1979-09-17	18	20	2
103	1979	4	1979-09-24	19	18	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
104	1973	5	1973-10-01	19
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
105	1972	8	1972-10-23	18
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
106	1968	8	1968-10-28	13
107	1968	13	1968-12-02	20
108	1968	14	Final	14	20	6
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
109	1966	12	1966-11-28	10
110	1966	13	Final	10	10
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
111	1959	1	Preseason	4	NA	—
112	1959	2	1959-09-21	6	4	2
113	1959	4	1959-10-05	15
114	1959	5	1959-10-12	15	15
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
115	1958	1	Preseason	17	NA	—
116	1958	2	1958-09-22	20	17	3
117	1958	3	1958-09-29	17	20	3
118	1958	4	1958-10-06	18	17	1
119	1958	5	1958-10-13	16	18	2
120	1958	8	1958-11-03	20
121	1958	9	1958-11-10	15	20	5
122	1958	12	Final	18
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
123	1957	2	1957-09-23	15
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
124	1956	2	1956-09-24	5
125	1956	3	1956-10-01	12	5	7
126	1956	4	1956-10-08	19	12	7
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
127	1955	1	Preseason	16	NA	—
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
128	1954	7	1954-10-25	18
129	1954	9	1954-11-08	19
130	1954	10	1954-11-15	11	19	8
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
131	1953	5	1953-10-19	13
132	1953	6	1953-10-26	11	13	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
133	1951	4	1951-10-15	15
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
134	1950	1	Preseason	10	NA	—
135	1950	2	1950-10-02	3	10	7
136	1950	3	1950-10-09	2	3	1
137	1950	4	1950-10-16	3	2	1
138	1950	5	1950-10-23	1	3	2
139	1950	6	1950-10-30	1	1
140	1950	7	1950-11-06	7	1	6
141	1950	8	1950-11-13	14	7	7
142	1950	9	1950-11-20	15	14	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
143	1949	1	1949-10-03	9	NA	—
144	1949	2	1949-10-10	10	9	1
145	1949	3	1949-10-17	17	10	7
146	1949	4	1949-10-24	11	17	6
147	1949	5	1949-10-31	9	11	2
148	1949	6	1949-11-07	12	9	3
149	1949	7	1949-11-14	10	12	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
150	1948	1	1948-10-04	4	NA	—
151	1948	2	1948-10-11	14	4	10
152	1948	3	1948-10-18	11	14	3
153	1948	4	1948-10-25	11	11
154	1948	5	1948-11-01	8	11	3
155	1948	6	1948-11-08	7	8	1
156	1948	7	1948-11-15	10	7	3
157	1948	8	1948-11-22	8	10	2
158	1948	9	Final	10	8	2
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
159	1947	3	1947-10-20	12
160	1947	4	1947-10-27	8	12	4
161	1947	5	1947-11-03	3	8	5
162	1947	6	1947-11-10	4	3	1
163	1947	7	1947-11-17	3	4	1
164	1947	8	1947-11-24	3	3
165	1947	9	1947-12-01	4	3	1
166	1947	10	Final	3	4	1
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
167	1941	3	1941-10-27	20
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
168	1940	2	1940-10-21	19
169	1940	3	1940-10-28	15	19	4
170	1940	4	1940-11-04	14	15	1
171	1940	5	1940-11-11	20	14	6
172	1940	6	1940-11-18	18	20	2
173	1940	7	1940-11-25	16	18	2
174	1940	8	Final	16	16
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
175	1939	1	1939-10-16	18	NA	—
176	1939	2	1939-10-23	17	18	1
177	1939	3	1939-10-30	16	17	1
178	1939	4	1939-11-06	13	16	3
179	1939	5	1939-11-13	17	13	4
Rk	Year	Wk	Date	Rk	Prev	Chng
180	1936	1	1936-10-19	19	NA	—
181	1936	2	1936-10-26	15	19	4
182	1936	3	1936-11-02	12	15	3
183	1936	4	1936-11-09	19	12	7