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| 2025 | Final scheduled game in the SMU-TCU rivalry, after which TCU plans to end the long-standing football series. |
| 2024 | SMU wins the annual Iron Skillet game and takes possession of the Iron Skillet trophy. |
| 2024 | SMU Mustangs finish the regular season with an 11-1 record (8-0 in Conference), marking their first double-digit win count since the 1984 season. |
| 2024 | SMU plays in the ACC Championship Game, losing 34-31 to Clemson. |
| 2024 | SMU participates in the first 12-team College Football Playoff, losing in the first round to Penn State 38-10. |
| 2024 | SMU won a national championship in Women's Equestrian. |
| June 30 2024 | SMU Mustangs leave the American Athletic Conference to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. |
| 2023 | SMU won the annual game against Navy and currently holds the Gansz Trophy. |
| 2023 | North Texas joins the American Athletic Conference, making the SMU-North Texas game a conference matchup for the first time. |
| 2023 | SMU won the game and currently holds the Mayor's Cup; Rice joined the American Athletic Conference, resuming the rivalry temporarily. |
| 2023 | SMU Mustangs football team won the American Athletic Conference Championship, marking a significant achievement for the program in the conference. |
| 2023 | SMU Mustangs football team competed in the Fenway Bowl. |
| 2023 | SMU won a national championship in Women's Equestrian. |
| 2023 | SMU joined the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) for men's swimming & diving for the 2023–24 season. |
| 2023 | SMU won its first conference title since the NCAA sanctions. |
| October 30 2023 | The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) announced future conference schedules for SMU for the 2024 to 2030 seasons, establishing a new scheduling format with 17 teams playing an eight-game conference schedule and ensuring each team plays every other team at least twice in 7 years. |
| 2022 | Under Rhett Lashlee, SMU played in the New Mexico Bowl, losing to BYU 23-24. |
| 2022 | Rhett Lashlee was hired as SMU's head coach after serving as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Miami. |
| 2022 | The American Conference dropped men's swimming & diving at the end of the 2022–23 school year. |
| 2022 | Tim Jankovich retired as head coach of the men's basketball team. |
| 2021 | SMU's Fenway Bowl against Virginia was canceled. |
| 2021 | SMU Spirit Teams placed first at NCA and NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida in division 1A. |
| 2021 | SMU won a national championship in Cheer and Pom. |
| November 29 2021 | Rhett Lashlee returns to SMU as head football coach, coming back to the program after previously serving as offensive coordinator. |
| 2020 | SMU's Frisco Bowl against UTSA was canceled. |
| 2020 | Women's basketball team canceled the remainder of the season (likely due to COVID-19 pandemic). |
| 2019 | SMU participated in the Boca Raton Bowl, losing to Florida Atlantic 28-52. |
| 2019 | SMU Women's Equestrian Team transitioned from competing in the United Equestrian Conference (UEC) to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). |
| 2019 | At the American Athletic Conference championship, SMU's first varsity eight won gold, breaking the University of Central Florida's long winning streak in the event. The team medaled in every racing category from the V8 to the 3V8, finishing second overall with 176 points, just 4 points behind the first-place team. |
| September 29 2019 | SMU was ranked in the AP top 25 for the first time since October 25, 1986, highlighting the team's improved performance under Dykes. |
| September 21 2019 | SMU Mustangs defeated cross-town rival TCU in a significant football matchup. |
| 2018 | SMU women's rowing achieved a program-best fourth-place finish at the American Athletic Conference championship under first-year head coach Kim Cupini. The first varsity four won the program's first gold medal, and the first varsity eight won bronze. |
| 2018 | SMU Spirit Teams placed first at NCA and NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida in division 1A. |
| 2018 | SMU won a national championship in Cheer and Pom. |
| 2017 | Under Sonny Dykes, SMU played in the Frisco Bowl, losing to Louisiana Tech 10-51. |
| 2017 | SMU Spirit Teams placed first at NCA and NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida in division 1A. |
| 2017 | The Robson & Lindley Aquatic Center, an Olympic-sized pool, was built to support SMU's swimming and diving program. |
| 2017 | SMU won a national championship in Cheer and Pom. |
| December 11 2017 | Sonny Dykes was hired as the new football coach of SMU, marking the beginning of his tenure with the Mustangs. |
| 2016 | SMU hired Travis Mays as head coach of the women's basketball team. |
| 2016 | SMU Spirit Teams placed first at NCA and NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida in division 1A. |
| 2016 | SMU won a national championship in Cheer and Pom. |
| July 2016 | SMU hired Tim Jankovich as head coach of the men's basketball team. |
| 2015 | Navy joined the American Athletic Conference, enabling the SMU-Navy rivalry to become a yearly conference game. |
| 2015 | Chad Morris takes over as head coach, leading the team from 2015 to 2017 with a record of 14-22. |
| 2013 | Rivalry resumes after the third major hiatus between SMU and North Texas. |
| 2013 | SMU becomes a member of the newly formed American Athletic Conference after the Big East Conference splits along football lines. |
| 2012 | SMU won the Hawaii Bowl against Fresno State with a score of 43-10. |
| 2011 | SMU won the BBVA Compass Bowl against Pittsburgh with a score of 28-6. |
| 2010 | SMU played in the Armed Forces Bowl, losing to Army 14-16. |
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