SMU prediction: Will the Mustangs' second-half surge end in bowl eligibility?

SMU at Tulsa

When: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Chapman Stadium in Tulsa

Records: SMU (5-6, 4-3 American); Tulsa (2-9, 1-6 American)

Last meeting: SMU defeated Tulsa 38-34 on October 27, 2017 in Dallas.

TV: CBSSN

What's on the line?

Here we are... the final week of the regular season. This season, in many ways, has been exactly what we thought it could be and also not at all what we thought it would be -- with regards to SMU.

Considering SMU's difficult schedule, its new coaching staff and loss of key offensive weapons in the offseason, making the postseason was questionable from the onset. While few thought that Year 1 under new head coach Sonny Dykes would be as rocky as the Chad Morris rebuild,…