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

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

DALLAS - SMU will play in the College Football Playoff for the first time ever. The 11th-seeded Mustangs will take on No. 6 Penn State later this month. The playoff berth didn't come without a bit ...

SMU’s goals of appealing to the broader city have been rapidly accelerated by its success in its first season in the ACC and its upcoming trip to the ...