SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY

Location: Dallas

Founded: 1911

Enrollment: 11,000 (estimate), 6,489 underclassmen

President: Dr. R. Gerald Turner

Athletics Director: Steve Orsini, named to position in March 2006

Affliation: NCAA Division I

Conference: Conference USA, left Western Athletic Conference in 2005

Colors: Red and blue

Nickname: Mustangs

Stadium: Gerald J. Ford Stadium (32,000)

Surface: SportGrass

Win-loss record in 2007: 1-11

Finish in conference: 0-8, last in Conference USA Western Division

Conference teams in bowls after 2007 season: 6 of 12 (Central Florida in Liberty Bowl, East Carolina in Hawai'i Bowl, Memphis in New Orlens Bowl, Southern Mississippi in PapaJohns.com Bowl, Tulsa in GMAC Bowl, Houston in Texas Bowl)

Football revenue: $8,678,120

Football expenses: $1,256,152

Coaches current salary: Vacant, but $1.7 million to $2 million reportedly being offered. SMU athletic director Steve Orsini has raised some $10 million toward the hiring of a new coach since Phil Bennett was fired on Oct. 28.

Top returning quarterback: Justin Willis, picked as the Conference USA Freshman of the Year by the league's coaches and media in 2006

Quarterback records: School-record 26 TD passes set by Justin Willins in 2006

Noteworthy quarterbacks: Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Monday Night Football announcer played there.

Heisman noteable: The Doak Walker Award, an annual collegiate award given to the "most outstanding college running back", is named after SMU Heisman Trophy Winner Doak Walker.

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I

Location: Honolulu

Founded: 1907

Enrollment: 20,307, 11,473 underclassmen

President: David McClain

Athletics Director: Herman Frazier

Conference: Western Athletic

Colors: Green, black, white and silver

Nickname: Warriors

Stadium: Aloha (50,000)

Surface: FieldTurf

Win-loss record in 2007: 12-1

Finish in conference: 8-0, first in WAC

Conference teams in bowls after 2007 season: 4 of 9 (UH in Sugar Bowl, Boise State in Hawai'i Bowl, Fresno State in Humanitarian Bowl, Nevada in New Mexico Bowl)

Football revenue: $7,033,664

Football expenses: $2,176,307

Coaches current salary: $800,016

Top returning quarterback: Tyler Graunke, threw UH's only touchdown pass in Sugar Bowl

Quarterback records: NCAA-record 58 touchdown passes for single season set by Colt Brennan in 2006-07

Noteworthy quarterbacks: Tim Chang holds NCAA career record for passing yards; Colt Brennan holds 29 NCAA records

Heisman Trophy: Colt Brennan finished third in Heisman Trophy

TIDBITS

ROAD KILL: June Jones' first road victory as a UH coach came against SMU, Sept. 25, 1999, in the Cotton Bowl. The 20-0 victory was UH's first road win in seven years and first road shutout since 1983.

LAST MEETING: UH beat SMU, 42-10, at Aloha Stadium in Sept. 29, 2002. Tim Chang passed for 246 yards and a touchdown and Chad Owens had 11 catches for 182 yards.

NOTEWORTHY: From 1980-1985 SMU had the winningest program in Division 1A College Football. They posted a record of 55-14-1, and finished as the Nos. 21, 7, 2, 19, and 8 in the nation.

DID YOU KNOW? SMU, the only Division I athletic program in Dallas, sponsors 17 sports and has been ranked as the top school in its conference for 10 straight years in the Director's Cup overall athletic rankings.

DUBIOUS SMU HISTORY: Football program was given the "death penalty" in 1987 and 1988 after excessive NCAA violations. SMU had already been placed on three years' probation in 1985, but in 1986 faced allegations that players were being paid, eventually resulting in NCAA instituting the "death penalty."

The infractions committee cited the need to "eliminate a program that was built on a legacy of wrongdoing, deceit and rule violations" as a factor in what is still the harshest penalty ever meted out to any major collegiate program.

The "death penalty" is currently a punishment under the NCAA's "repeat violator" rule. Since 1985, if a second major violation occurs at any institution within five years of being on probation in the same sport or another sport, that institution can be barred from competing in the sport involved in the second violation for either one or two seasons.

It has only been implemented twice — against SMU football and the University of Kentucky basketball program for the 1952-53 season.

Sources: http://ope.ed.gov/athletics, Internet research, www.smumustangs.com