How SMU wound up in the ACC (and, eventually, the CFP)
Posted Dec 21, 2024
Southern Methodist University has spent decades slowly crawling out of sports wilderness, a byproduct of the harshest NCAA decision on record: the infamous death penalty, which discontinued the football program for two seasons in 1987-88 over impermissible benefits to players — actions now legal through name, image and likeness rules.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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