Rhett Lashlee won’t call the SMU run in 2024 a “dream season” because his Ponies lost the last two games of the season. They lost in the last minute of the ACC Championship Game to Clemson and were beaten soundly at Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoff.
Success is becoming the norm on the Hilltop after decades of purgatory. The Mustangs have won 44 games and one conference championship since the start of this decade. The program went 35 years between 10-win seasons after 1982. They’ve now reached that mark two years in a row and three times in the last six seasons.