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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]
The Safeway Bowl is the name given to the North Texas–SMU football rivalry. [2] It is a college football rivalry game between the Southern Methodist University Mustangs football team and the University of North Texas Mean Green football team , two universities in Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex .
The 2022 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 2022 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).
The Mustangs, ranked 13 th in this week’s College Football Playoff Top 25, have agreed to visit South Bend on an unspecified date at Notre Dame Stadium in 2026. SMU replaces Virginia on the ...
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.
SMU’s billionaire backers, however, hardly blinked. Shortly before receiving the invite, David Miller, the chairman of the school’s board, quickly organized a meeting of 12 wealthy donors.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
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.