SMU opens up the 2025 season with a home game against East Texas A&M Saturday night inside Gerald J. Ford Stadium.
SMU opens up the 2025 season with a home game against East Texas A&M Saturday night inside Gerald J. Ford Stadium. At 8 p.m. CT, the country will get a look at the Mustangs for the first time this season as they look to build off an impressive 2024 campaign.
SMU is coming off an 11-3 record last year with a clean record in ACC play. East Texas A&M finished the 2024 season with a 3-9 record and a 2-4 conference mark.
Head coach Rhett Lashlee is in his fourth season as the head coach at SMU and has a 29-12 career record, with the 29 wins the second most for a head coach in his first three years in program history.
The Mustangs are 20-4 in their last 24 games, and 19-1 in their last 20 regular-season contests. Last season, SMU played in the ACC Championship in just its first season in the league and made the College Football Playoff.
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How to watch SMU vs. East Texas A&M
Saturday, August 30, 2025 – 8 p.m. CT
[16/16] SMU (0-0, ACC) vs. East Texas A&M (0-0, SLC)
Gerald J. Ford Stadium – Dallas, Texas
TV: ACC Network
Radio: The Ticket – KTCK 96.7 FM/1310 AM | Streaming: SMU App (Google Play | Apple App Store)
Spread for SMU vs. East Texas A&M
Ahead of the matchup, there isn’t a spread from our friends at BetMGM, but Caesars has SMU is favored by 51 points on the spread, with the over/under set at 63.5.
Despite the clear mismatch between the two programs, Lashlee said Game 1 of the season can be quirky as programs figure out how their team responds. With nearly half of SMU’s roster being new, Lashlee said the staff can learn a lot from its opener.
“We have a lot of new faces playing, too, in the starting role on defense and so we just got to see how guys respond in that situation. Doesn’t matter who we’re playing,” Lashlee said Tuesday. “A game situation, you just can’t simulate it. I think back to last year we’re playing at Nevada we got a guy like RJ Maryland had like three busts the entire year and they all happened in that first game. Game 1s, they could come out and run totally different defense and totally different offense so could we, right? You never know what the opponent’s gonna do, you have an idea, but how guys respond with people in the stands, game on TV, you learn a lot.”
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