SMU QB Preston Stone leaves Navy game with injury
SMU quarterback Preston Stone left the Navy game with a left leg injury and was carted off as the Mustangs took a 49-7 lead over the Midshipmen. Stone was scrambling around and was crunched in the backfield with the score 42-7 in the 1st half.
Head coach Rhett Lashlee said postgame he hadn’t talked to doctors about Stone’s status after the 59-14 win over Navy. SMU improved to 10-2 overall with the win.
Stone left the game with a 14-of-19 line for an impressive 322 yards and three touchdowns. The Mustangs were well on their way to playing Tulane in the AAC Championship Game in a week in New Orleans.
His performance was a dominant one as he amassed the best single-quarter passing yardage performance of this season’s FBS college football season.
The 2023 American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game will be televised on ABC for the ninth consecutive season, as announced by the conference. The 2023 American Championship Game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. CT. ABC has televised The American Championship Game each year since the game’s inception in 2015.
SMU’s win over Navy pitted them against the Green Wave, which won the AAC last season and beat USC in the Cotton Bowl.
The American Athletic Conference champion has advanced to either the College Football Playoff or a New Year’s Six bowl seven times in the first nine seasons of the College Football Playoff era.
