SMU-Stanford game time, TV coverage announced
The No. 25 SMU Mustangs will take on the Stanford Cardinal at 7 p.m. CT in Palo Alto, Calif. on Oct. 19 as the 5-1 Mustangs travel west. The game will be televised on ACC Network.
Rhett Lashlee’s team is on a bye this week while Troy Taylor’s team goes on the road to face Top 25 Notre Dame. On Saturday, SMU beat Louisville, which was previously in the Top 25, 34-27. Stanford fell at home to Virginia Tech, 31-7.
For SMU, they’ve got to get back to work and keep improving each week, even on off weeks. SMU’s ability to start fast during the 3-game win streak’s been key.
“We didn’t start fast the first three weeks,” Lashlee said Saturday. “So, that’s probably coaching. Yeah, it’s a coaching problem. But I think our last three games we’ve gone field goal, touchdown, touchdown. So, I don’t know if there’s a common theme. We’ve been saying it since last year, ‘Start strong, stay strong, finish strong. Great, sounds good, got to do it. We started strong, we finished strong today.”
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As SMU heads on the road to face Stanford next, the second of three straight road games, Lashlee’s team encountered adversity at Louisville. He expects every ACC road game to be a tough game for his team.
“It was like a conference road game in the Power 4,” Lashlee said of Saturday’s win. “This is how they’re all going to be, but we’ve never been here before. So, for our kids to respond the way they did was awesome because that’s how it goes. When the momentum swings on the road it just feels a lot more dramatic than it is, because the crowd’s against you, right? And so for our guys to just not flinch and just keep playing and the moment never got (too big).
“You know, a lot of teams that are up 24-11 and a half, 27-20, 27-all going in fourth quarter, all the momentum with the home team, it’s really easy to fold and come in here and go, ‘Man, we played really well. We had our chances. We just, we’ve got to learn to finish on the road.’ And our guys kind of just stood up and said, ‘No. We’re going to finish now.’ So I’m really proud of them.”
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