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Kliever and Berst were subjected to stern questioning, and the committee stayed in session longer than usual. On February 20, Berst told Kliever that SMU would indeed get a "death penalty." [7] Ultimately, the committee voted unanimously to cancel SMU's entire 1987 football season and all four of its scheduled home games in 1988. [23] [7]
The 2023 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season.The Mustangs played their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium in University Park, Texas, a separate city within the city limits of Dallas, and competed in the American Athletic Conference (The American).
Since the 2013 college football season, the Mustangs compete in the American Athletic Conference but starting in 2024 now compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. SMU began playing football in 1915 and has played their home games since 1999 at Gerald J. Ford Stadium on the SMU campus in University Park, Texas , an enclave of Dallas .
SMU is headed to the College Football Playoff in its first season in the ACC. How it made the jump to the conference is a Texas-sized story filled with billionaires and big decisions.
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SMU (8-1) is in its first season since joining the ACC under conference realignment. Notre Dame holds a 10-3 all-time edge in the series, including wins of 59-6 in 1989 and 61-29 in 1986.
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.
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. This colloquial term compares it with capital punishment since it is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive, but in fact its effect is only temporary.