[1] The SMU Mustang Band features a high-stepping, quick marching style[5] and loud, brassy musical arrangements.

[3] Dr. Dreibrodt's 25-year tenure as director led to the creation of many of the band's traditions and songs that continue today.

[11] The band represented the United States in the 2022 D-Day Memorial Parade in Sainte-Mère-Église, in Normandy, France.

[14] Paul Crockett is the current Assistant Director for the Mustang Band, succeeding Tommy Tucker.

Tucker was the Assistant Director of the SMU Mustang Band and is currently the primary music arranger.

[15] He obtained his degree from SMU in 1984 and previously served as the Mustang Band Assistant Director from 1984-1988.

[17] Jon Lee has been the drumline instructor and percussion arranger for the SMU Mustang Band since 1995.

The university abandoned the beanie tradition sometime in the late 1950s, leaving football players and band members as the only people wearing them on campus.

[3] That buzz—a flutter tongue on a concert F—was incorporated into the start of Peruna, the official SMU fight song.

[26][27] Past Pigskin Revues have also featured celebrity performers, including Bob Hope and Jerry Jeff Walker.

[17] SMU's fight song and pony mascot are named Peruna after a potent “medicine” marketed since the early 1890s that had a high alcohol content.

[28][29] The fight song is to the melody of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” and the SMU Mustang Band has arranged multiple versions, including traditional, Dixieland, rock and roll, pop, and country-western Peruna.

[6][30] At the end of every halftime performance the band forms its unique Diamond M formation to the tune of Pony Battle Cry, a school fight song introduced in 1964.

By 1956 someone complained that women in the band were wearing trousers due to the uniform, and because SMU had a dress code prohibiting women from wearing slacks or trousers, the University decided to return the band to an all-male organization.

The Club is operated through the SMU Office of Development and managed by a board of directors elected by the membership.

[38][39] As part of the longstanding rivalry with TCU, called the Battle for the Iron Skillet, members of the Mustang Band dropped rye grass seed in the signature Diamond M formation onto the field at Amon G. Carter Stadium during the game on November 26, 1999.