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Rivalry finally emerging after 34 years of Safeway Bowl history

SMU football will clash with UNT this Saturday for the 35th time in school history. SMU leads the series 28-5-1 but UNT has won three of the last five meetings.

SMU defensive end Zelt Minor getting a sack in last year's UNT game Photo credit: SMU Athletics

In 1994, UNT head coach Matt Simon challenged SMU for not scheduling the Mean Green by saying, “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.