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 ...

Our series continues with running backs. Related: Back from the dead: Same actions that landed SMU the death penalty fueled Mustangs’ rise 5. Reggie Dupard --Dupard was an All-American for SMU ...

With 22 wins over two years and a CFP appearance, SMU redefined the program and changed its identity for future generations.

Matula’s father was an SMU professor, and Thaddeus was 8 when SMU received the Death Penalty. The man loves his alma mater, and it was his efforts to tell the entire story of SMU that allowed ...

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.

The SMU Mustangs are set for one of the biggest ... After decades spent living in the wake of the 1987 death penalty, the Mustangs are back on a national stage and thriving in the ACC during ...

The Verdict: SMU fans have been waiting for this since the team got the death penalty in 1987, and now thye've made it back to the mountaintop. There's no denying the Mustangs are on the rise.

SMU also had a long climb back to relevance. One of the nation's top programs in the 1980s, the Mustangs received the death penalty from the NCAA in 1987 for a pay-to-play scandal. SMU had a hard ...