The first season of "It's Always Sonny on the Hilltop" with SMU head coach Sonny Dykes begins Monday, Aug. 27 at Ozona Grill and Bar, and will run throughout the 2018 campaign, the school announced on Monday. The show will air live on KAAM 770 AM each Monday from 7-8 p.m. CT. There will be food and drink specials, trivia and prizes on site each week.

Fans can also tweet their questions for Coach Dykes using the hashtag #AlwaysSonny, or by clicking the "Ask The Coach" button on SMUMustangs.com. The show will also be available on the TuneIn App by searching "SMU". Ozona Grill and Bar is located at 4615 Greenville Ave., just a short distance from the SMU campus.

Dykes and his team are closing in on its first game of the season, against North Texas on Sept. 1 in Denton, Texas. The team has been busy trying to establish its offensive identity while also shoring up a team with veteran transfers.

"Well we’ve got to be able to run the football. Thats going to be first and foremost for us, we’ve got to be a team that can line up and run the ball," Dykes said earlier in fall camp. "We’ve got to run it when everybody in the stadium knows we’re going to run it, and I think that’s when you know you’re a good offensive football team, is when you can run the ball when the defense knows you’re going to run it, and when everybody sitting in the stands knows you’re going to run it. We’ve got to do that. That’s the biggest adjustment for us is just getting more physical up front, getting guys to come off of the ball, and play a little bit more vertical in the run game."

SMU returns quarterback Ben Hicks, three established running backs in Xavier Jones, Braeden West and Ke'Mon Freeman as well as star cornerback Jordan Wyatt. The team also added impact transfers like Reggie Roberson, Cole Sterns, CJ Sanders, Richard Moore, Patrick Nelson and others to the fold for this season.

Cory Wauson, Area Director of Ozona Grill and Bar, is excited to host another season of the coach's radio show for SMU. The program began at Humperdinks before moving to Ozona.

"We are excited to host the first season of Coach Dykes' show," Wauson said in a release. "We have proudly served both SMU students and their great fans over the past 25 years. We have no doubt that this will be another great year together."