Feb. 9, 2006

DALLAS (SMU) - The 2006 SMU Football schedule has been finalized, Conference USA announced Thursday, February 9.

The Mustangs will open the season on the road, with trips to Lubbock and Denton, Texas, to face Texas Tech on Sept. 2 and North Texas on Sept. 9.

SMU will then return home to host Sam Houston and Arkansas State on Sept. 16 and 23, respectively, at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.

The Mustangs then open league play with back-to-back road trips to Tulane (Sept. 30) and UTEP (Oct. 7).

Marshall makes its first-ever trip to Dallas on Oct. 14 for SMU's C-USA home opener before the Mustangs stampede east to face East Carolina in Greenville, N.C., on Oct. 21.

SMU will then host UAB on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 6:30 p.m. (CST) in a nationally-televised ESPN2 match-up.

Back-to-back home games against 2005 bowl team Houston (Nov. 11) and 2005 C-USA Champion Tulsa (Nov. 18) wrap up the home slate before SMU travels to Space City to battle Rice in the regular-season finale on Nov. 25.

The Conference USA Championship game is slated for Dec. 2.

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