Andy Enfield goes into his second season at SMU, which is going into its second Atlantic Coast Conference basketball season.

Despite the walk off field goal to upset SMU, there were still good, bad, and ugly takeaways from Saturday's game.

When SMU wide receiver Jordan Hudson found out last year that he was having a son, one of his first calls was to a person he knew would understand better than anyone. Hudson, then 20, phoned his roommate and teammate Romello Brinson,

SMU football went from dominating the ACC to getting stunned on Saturday versus Wake Forest, hitting this new low.

Miami and SMU appeared to be trending toward an Atlantic Coast Conference championship game matchup last season before the Hurricanes fell out of the conference title picture.

Lashlee was with SMU for the final two seasons that the Mustangs competed in the AAC from 2022-23 before their move to the ACC in 2024. SMU fared well in its first year in a new conference, reaching the ACC Championship Game and College Football Playoff last season.

But the two games leading up to those final plays couldn’t have been more different. Against Clemson last year, SMU made a valiant comeback effort after trailing 24-7 at halftime. Against Wake Forest, while the defense did all it could to secure the win, the offense never found a rhythm, and the Demon Deacons were able to capitalize.

The skulls the group members play today are modeled after that of the Corythosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur with a bony Mohawk that reminded the paleontologist who named the creature of the Corinthian helmets worn by soldiers in ancient Greece.