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In the winter of 1975, SMU hired Ron Meyer, an up-and-coming football coach who had previous success at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [4] In the late 1970s, attention around SMU football grew, and in the 1978 offseason the university launched a media campaign which caused its average home attendance to double from 26,000 to 52,000. [5]
In 1987, SMU became the first and only football program in collegiate athletic history to receive the "death penalty" for repeated serious violations of NCAA rules. The NCAA forced SMU to cancel its football program for the 1987 season because the university had been paying some of the players—approximately $61,000 was paid from 1985 until 1986.
LAS VEGAS - The first 12-team College Football Playoff resulted in the first leak of a team chosen for the field. “I was furious,” CFP director Rich Clark said Tuesday to USA TODAY Sports ...
The SMU Mustangs are the athletic teams that represent Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, United States. [a] SMU was founded in 1911 and joined the Southwest Conference, competing against Baylor, Rice, Texas, Texas A&M, Arkansas and Oklahoma A&M (which later became Oklahoma State).
Celebrating Clemson and SMU in the College Football Playoff as a verifying and flag-planting moment for the conference on the verge of collapse. Clemson, the ACC champion and automatic qualifier ...
Indiana and SMU losing their College Football Playoff games by a combined 38 points in dominant fashion raised a variety of opinions, with some believing it to be an indictment of the playoff ...
However, after massive rules violations resulted in the NCAA handing down the "death penalty" in 1987, SMU officials decided to move football games back to a heavily renovated Ownby Stadium. From 1976 to 1979 the chief tenant at Ownby was the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League .
According to ESPN's College Football Power Index, Alabama had a higher FPI ranking (which measures a team's true strength on net points scale) than SMU entering Sunday. The Crimson Tide were ...