Pony Excess (2010)

From 19811984 a small private school in Dallas owned the best record in college football The Mustangs of Southern Methodist University were riding high on the backs of the vaunted Pony Express backfield But as the middle of the decade approached the program was coming apart at the seams Wins became the only thing that mattered as the University increasingly ceded power of the football program to the citys oil barons and real estate tycoons and flagrant and frequent NCAA violations became the norm In 1987 the school and the sport were rocked as the NCAA meted out the death penalty on a college football program for the first and only time in its history SMU would be without football for two years and the fan base would be without an identity for 20 more until the win in the 2009 Hawaii Bowl This is the story of Dallas in the 1980s and the greed power and corruption that spilled from the oil fields onto the football field and all the way to the Governors Mansion