What college's football program was the first to receive "the death penalty" from the NCAA after more than a decade of rule violations?

The NCAA "death penalty" is when a school gets banned from competing in a specific sport for a year or more. It earns its grisly name because of its power to obliterate a program — which is exactly what happened to SMU's football program. It had a single winning season in the 20 years following its 1987 ban.

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