SMU planning to "Stripe Out" its stadium for the Miami game this weekend

Trinton Breeze

Oct 28, 2025 1 min read

Miami fans traveling to Dallas this week will encounter a themed game when the Hurricanes face SMU. The Ponies plan to “Stripe Ford” on Saturday, November 1st, when SMU hosts Miami at Ford Stadium. The stripe-out calls for SMU fans to alternate red and blue sections throughout the stadium.

Here’s a better look at the Ford Stadium map: if you’re planning to disrupt the Stripe Out with some bright Miami orange or green shirts, the visitor sections are located in Sections 218–220

This game will be even more electric, as it also marks SMU’s homecoming night.

I didn’t even know SMU had enough fans to pull off a stripe-out theme. But after looking at some of their games from last season, they actually sold out every single one. So yeah, you can expect a packed house. Still, you better believe that orange and green will be in that stadium.

Mustang’s beware of the Category Five when it comes November 1st.

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TheOriginalCane

Oct 28, 2025

Terrifying.

OrangeBowlMagic

Oct 28, 2025

They're gonna last about as long as Fruit Stripe Gum

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bacane

Oct 28, 2025

Homecoming Night isn’t happening. Can’t imagine Ponies are thrilled with an 11am homecoming kickoff.

Brains

Oct 28, 2025

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90scane

Oct 28, 2025

Orange, blue, red, white?

hill33

Oct 28, 2025

Gonna look like a hard rock game vs bethune

Unclejoey99

Oct 28, 2025

smu stands for SISSY MEN UNIVERSITY

EudocimusAlbus

Oct 28, 2025

Maybe it's some country bumpkin thing IDK about, but what happened at sections 125 and 126 of the stripe?

JBCanes-NC

Oct 28, 2025

bacane said:
Homecoming Night isn’t happening. Can’t imagine Ponies are thrilled with an 11am homecoming kickoff.

Can’t imagine Miami is happy with a road kickoff at 11am

wdk3618

Oct 28, 2025

Are those visitor sections referenced right? I got Section 221 from UM.

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hurricaneman

Oct 28, 2025

I watched the Clemson game.

-First off, the backup QB for Clemson starts and goes for 317 yards and 3 TDs. SMU is dead last in the country in giving up 10+ yard passing plays and it's not even really close.
-Clemson cannot run the ball but I get the feeling we'll have similar struggles. This has the potential to be like Louisville in that if Beck struggles I don't think there's anything else they can turn to. It's really important that Miami doesn't go down early.
-The Lashlee offense looks exactly like it did under Miami. Feast or famine and a lot of quick drives that go nowhere. I haven't watched the Wake game but the drive chart is pretty incredible to look at. Their longest drive was a little under 3:00 minutes and they had 17 possessions.

I haven't watched a ton of Clemson but their offensive performance reminded me a lot of Miami's performance against Louisville. Everything on offense seemed like such a struggle.

Miami has a chance to prove that those 7 quarters midseason were an aberration or prove this is just who they are. This is a game Miami needs to dominate for themselves and for public perception. Based on what I've seen so far I think Miami is about to play another close game. SMU is Louisville lite. I hope they prove me wrong.

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954/512Cane

Oct 28, 2025

I'll be there in section 122 rocking my orange and green being an absolute A-hole.

CANEMC

Oct 28, 2025

Section 117 will have some Green and Orange spots.

TomAce

Oct 28, 2025

LuCane

Oct 28, 2025

What are the primary visitor sections?

Shooter McGavin

Oct 28, 2025

Merry Christmas ya filthy animal

Gables Cane

Oct 28, 2025

wdk3618 said:
Are those visitor sections referenced right? I got Section 221 from UM.

I’ve got Section 220 from UM.

OrangeBowlMagic

Oct 28, 2025

hurricaneman said:
I watched the Clemson game.

-First off, the backup QB for Clemson starts and goes for 317 yards and 3 TDs. SMU is dead last in the country in giving up 10+ yard passing plays and it's not even really close.
-Clemson cannot run the ball but I get the feeling we'll have similar struggles. This has the potential to be like Louisville in that if Beck struggles I don't think there's anything else they can turn to. It's really important that Miami doesn't go down early.
-The Lashlee offense looks exactly like it did under Miami. Feast or famine and a lot of quick drives that go nowhere. I haven't watched the Wake game but the drive chart is pretty incredible to look at. Their longest drive was a little under 3:00 minutes and they had 17 possessions.

I haven't watched a ton of Clemson but their offensive performance reminded me a lot of Miami's performance against Louisville. Everything on offense seemed like such a struggle.

Miami has a chance to prove that those 7 quarters midseason were an aberration or prove this is just who they are. This is a game Miami needs to dominate for themselves and for public perception. Based on what I've seen so far I think Miami is about to play another close game. SMU is Louisville lite. I hope they prove me wrong.

Good stuff. Said this yesterday but this game might be a Mario wet dream. Like you said, Lashlee plays fast, we know this. But they're not great on offense, so we're going to have more possessions in this game than usual. Their defense has faced 72+ plays for the last 5 consecutive games. We're obviously going to do what we do, and be as physical as possible in the run game. I wonder if you see some of what happened to Stanford and UiF in the 2nd half where they just submit and we start running through arm tackles and opening big holes and run them out of the building.

Miami is not the type of team you want to see on the schedule if you're a defense and you know your offense is going to put you in a position where you have to defend close to 80 plays. Especially not this being your 5th Saturday in a row playing football.

I know this isn't exactly playing into their weakness, as you mentioned they've given up NINETY pass plays of 10+ yards this year. For comparison, Miami has given up 46. Dead last in America, as you said. But I think this is going to be another game where of course we'll throw, hopefully we can hit some explosives, but we're obviously going to lean on them as well in the run game, and I'm interested to see how that looks in the 2nd half.