With SMU football playing in the College Football Playoff, here's a look back at the Mustangs' death penalty violation from ...

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 ...

Former spokesperson for Gov. Bill Clemens remembers SMU football’s “death penalty” in 1987 and cheers for the mustangs in ...

The SMU Mustangs were once a dominant football program before the NCAA's "death penalty" ceased their future. Now after more than 30 years, SMU has returned to their championship form. This ...

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 games ...

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 ...

The SMU football program's success has raised the national profile of the school and many people online have questions.

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 ...