It was a Friday night standalone game on ESPN.
That national stage was the fuel the SMU Mustangs needed to piece together their best performance of the year. The Mustangs stormed into Temple’s home in Philadelphia and eviscerated the Owls in every fashion possible. The result was a 55-0 evisceration — the third largest win over an FBS team this year, only trailing Oklahoma’s 73-0 thrashing of Arkansas State and Penn State’s 63-0 annihilation of UMass.
SMU out-gained Temple by a 4.3x multiplier in the yardage department, posting 563 yards compared to the Owls’ 131. All five sacks of the contest belonged to the Mustangs, and the third down discrepancy was enormous.