Safeway Bowl
| Sport | Football |
|---|---|
| First meeting | October 7, 1922 SMU 66, North Texas 0 |
| Latest meeting | September 12, 2015 SMU 31, North Texas 13 |
| Next meeting | September 13, 2016 |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 35 |
| All-time series | SMU leads 29–5–1 (.843) |
| Largest victory | SMU, 68–0 (1927) North Texas, 43–6 (2014) |
| Longest win streak | SMU, 11 (1934–76) |
| Current win streak | SMU, 1 (2015–present) |
The Safeway Bowl is a college football rivalry game between the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Mustangs football team and the University of North Texas (UNT) Mean Green football team, two universities in Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Its name is derived from a challenge from then UNT head coach Matt Simon issued in 1994 after a two-year break in the series, stating "I'd like to play because I think we could beat them, and my players feel the same way. If they'd like to play on a Safeway parking lot ... just give us a date and time."[1]
The schools have played 35 times dating back to 1922 with two hiatuses from 1992–2006 and from 2007–2014. The most recent meetings between the two teams occurred in 2015, when the Mustangs defeated the Mean Green 31–13,[2] though in 2014, the Mean Green defeated the Mustangs 43–6,.[3] In 2013, North Texas announced that the teams would play each other each year between 2014 and 2025, alternating home fields between each year.[4]
Game results
| SMU victories | North Texas victories | Tie games |
| # | Date | Location | Winner | Score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 7, 1922 | Armstrong Field | SMU | 66–0 | ||||
| 2 | February 29, 1923 | Armstrong Field | SMU | 41–0 | ||||
| 3 | September 27, 1924 | Armstrong Field | SMU | 7–0 | ||||
| 4 | September 26, 1925 | Armstrong Field | SMU | 48–0 | ||||
| 5 | September 24, 1926 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 42–0 | ||||
| 6 | September 24, 1927 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 68–0 | ||||
| 7 | September 22, 1928 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 60–6 | ||||
| 8 | September 21, 1929 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 13–3 | ||||
| 9 | September 26, 1931 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 13–0 | ||||
| 10 | September 24, 1932 | Ownby Stadium | Tie | 0–0 | ||||
| 11 | September 23, 1933 | Ownby Stadium | North Texas | 7–0 | ||||
| 12 | September 22, 1934 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 33–0 | ||||
| 13 | September 21, 1935 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 39–0 | ||||
| 14 | September 26, 1936 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 6–0 | ||||
| 15 | September 25, 1937 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 14–0 | ||||
| 16 | September 24, 1938 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 34–7 | ||||
| 17 | October 7, 1939 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 16–0 | ||||
| 18 | October 5, 1940 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 20–0 | ||||
| 19 | September 27, 1941 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 54–0 | ||||
| 20 | September 26, 1942 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 26–7 | ||||
| 21 | September 14, 1974 | Cotton Bowl | SMU | 7–6 | ||||
| 22 | September 25, 1976 | Cotton Bowl | SMU | 38–31 | ||||
| 23 | September 17, 1977 | Texas Stadium | North Texas | 24–13 | ||||
| 24 | September 22, 1979 | Texas Stadium | SMU | 20–9 | ||||
| 25 | September 13, 1980 | Texas Stadium | SMU | 28–9 | ||||
| 26 | September 12, 1981 | Texas Stadium | SMU | 34–7 | ||||
| 27 | October 2, 1982 | Texas Stadium | SMU | 38–10 | ||||
| 28 | September 22, 1984 | Texas Stadium | SMU | 24–6 | ||||
| 29 | October 28, 1989 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 35–9 | ||||
| 30 | October 6, 1990 | Fouts Field | North Texas | 14–7 | ||||
| 31 | September 12, 1992 | Ownby Stadium | SMU | 28–14 | ||||
| 32 | September 9, 2006 | Fouts Field | North Texas | 24–6 | ||||
| 33 | September 8, 2007 | Gerald J. Ford Stadium | SMU | 45–31 | ||||
| 34 | September 6, 2014 | Apogee Stadium | North Texas | 43–6 | ||||
| 35 | September 12, 2015 | Gerald J. Ford Stadium | SMU | 31–13 | ||||
| Series: SMU leads 29–5–1 | ||||||||
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