The 2016 season's largest margin: SMU 55, East Carolina 31. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for SMU. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Ben HicksQB2,930 passing yards
- Braeden WestRB1,036 rushing yards
- Ke'Mon FreemanRB651 rushing yards
- Courtland SuttonWR1,246 receiving yards
- James ProcheWR709 receiving yards
- Xavier CastilleWR423 receiving yards
- Kyran MitchellLB67 tackles
- Justin LawlerDE65 tackles
- Darrion MillinesDB64 tackles
- Jarvis PruittDL4.5 sacks
- Demerick GaryDT4 sacks
- RC CoxLB2 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: SMU 7, Memphis 51. A 44-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Pony up"
2016 sits in SMU's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.