October 10, 2009 – Dallas, Texas – SMU faced off against the defending Conference USA champion East Carolina Pirates. East Carolina went into the game as the favorites, but it was SMU who ended up on top 28-21 in a back and forth game that wasn’t decided until the last minutes of the fourth quarter. The victory sees SMU go 2-0 in conference for the first time since 1986 when SMU was 3-0 in the old Southwest Conference.
