Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA ...

Southern Methodist University, a school based in Dallas, is the only program ever to receive the death penalty in college football. The Mustangs were hit with the harsh punishment in 1987 as a ...

The front page of The Dallas Morning News in February 1987, the day after SMU football got the death penalty. NCAA sanctions forced cancellation of football for a season, and allowed only away ...

There was a time when all SMU football was known for was "the death penalty" it received from the NCAA in 1987 for the scandal of paying players to play college football. That, of course ...

Jay Hartzell will lead a vastly different campus environment at Southern Methodist University after leaving the University of ...

the NCAA’s Death Penalty that barred the school from fielding a team in 1987 and the ensuing decades of purgatory. Advertisement SMU was another investment for Loyd, but a more personal one.

Tom Fornelli and Shehan Jeyarajah join Chris Hassel to discuss SMU being in the hunt for a title since their 'death penalty' ...

Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA defines ...