1946 SMU Mustangs football team

1946 Southwest Conference football standings
	+ – Conference co-champions; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1946 SMU Mustangs football team was an American football team that represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1946 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Matty Bell, the Mustangs compiled a 4–5–1 record (2–4 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 114 to 100.^[1] The team played its home games at Ownby Stadium in the University Park suburb of Dallas.

End Gene Wilson and guard Jim Sid Wright received first-team honors from the Associated Press (AP) on the 1946 All-Southwest Conference football team.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Result
September 30	at Temple	T 7–7
October 5	Texas Tech	L 0–7
October 11	Oklahoma State	W 15–6
October 19	at No. 16 Rice	L 7–21
October 26	at Missouri	W 17–0
November 2	at No. 7 Texas	L 3–19
November 8	Texas A&M	L 0–14
November 16	at No. 17 Arkansas	L 0–13
November 23	at Baylor	W 35–0
November 30	TCU	W 30–13
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

The 1947 NFL Draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Mustangs were selected.^[2]

Round	Pick	Player	Position	NFL Club
6	40	Gene Wilson	End	Green Bay Packers
13	110	John Hamberger	Tackle	Philadelphia Eagles
17	154	Frank Pulattie	Back	New York Giants

^ "1946 SMU Mustangs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
^ "1947 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved November 29, 2020.

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1946 Southwest Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 10 Rice +	5	–	1	–	0	9	–	2	–	0
No. 16 Arkansas +	5	–	1	–	0	6	–	3	–	2
No. 15 Texas	4	–	2	–	0	8	–	2	–	0
Texas A&M	4	–	2	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
SMU	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	5	–	1
TCU	2	–	4	–	0	2	–	7	–	1
Baylor	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	8	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll