The 1990 Southern Methodist University Mustangs football team represented the Southern Methodist University in the 1990 college football season.
 SMU opened with a 44-7 win over Vanderbilt, but struggled the remainder of the season still recovering from the Death penalty.
 The Mustangs offense scored 197 points while the defense allowed 426 points.
 Forrest Gregg, who was retiring after the season, was carried off the field following a loss to Arkansas in the final game.
Bobby Collins was the coach of the Southern Methodist University's football team from 1982 to 1986.
 He compiled a 43–14–1 record, and was succeeded by Forrest Gregg.
 Though Collins himself was not sanctioned by the NCAA, he lost his job as a result of the Southern Methodist University football scandal that resulted in the Death penalty.
Phil Bennett (born December 3, 1955) is an American football coach and former player.
 He is the defensive coordinator at Arizona State Sun Devils.
 Prior to this position, he served as the defensive coordinator for the Baylor Bears from 2011-2016, and was interim head coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers during their 2011 BBVA Compass Bowl win over Kentucky after serving as defensive coordinator of the Panthers for three seasons.
 Prior to coaching the Panthers, he served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2002 to 2007.
 Before his stint at SMU, he served as an assistant coach at seven different colleges.
Mike Cavan was the coach of the Southern Methodist University's football team from 1997 to 2001.
 He compiled a 22–34–0 record, and was succeeded by Phil Bennett.
The 1998 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season as members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in the Mountain Division.
 They played their home games at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 Head coach Mike Cavan returned for his second season leading SMU, following a 6–5 season in 1997, SMU's first winning season since the 1987–88 SMU "death penalty" was handed down by the NCAA, the highest punishment possible in the association.
 SMU finished the season 5–7 (4–4 WAC), but SMU vacated 10 games after Steve Malin was found to have been ineligible due to academic fraud.
The 1997 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season as members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in the Mountain Division.
 They played their home games at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
 Under first-year head coach Mike Cavan and ten years after the NCAA's 1987 "death penalty" on SMU football, SMU finished the 1997 season with a 6–5 record and completed their first winning season since the football program resumed operations in 1989.
Tom Rossley was the coach of the Southern Methodist University's football team from 1991 to 1996.
 He compiled a 15–48–3 record, and was succeeded by Mike Cavan.
The Southern Methodist University football scandal was an incident in which the football program at Southern Methodist University was investigated and punished for massive and repeated violations of NCAA rules and regulations over a period of several years beginning in the late 1970s and continuing through the middle of the 1980s.
 The most serious violation was the maintenance of a slush fund used for "under the table" payments to players and their families to entice them to come to SMU to play.
 As an indirect result of SMU's repeated violations, the NCAA instituted a rule change to stiffen penalties for multiple rule violations over a certain period that was referred to as the "death penalty".
Mike Cavan (born April 15, 1948) is a former American football player and coach.
 He served as the head coach at Valdosta State University (1986–1991), East Tennessee State University (1992–1996) and Southern Methodist University (1997–2001), compiling a career college football record of 89–83–2.
 Cavan played as a quarterback at the University of Georgia from 1968 to 1970 and was an assistant coach there from 1977 to 1985.
Madison A. "Matty" Bell (February 22, 1899 – June 30, 1983) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator.
 He played for Centre, captain of its 1918 team.
 He served as the head football coach at the Haskell Institute (1920–1921), Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin (1922), Texas Christian University (1923–1928), Texas A&M University (1929–1933), and Southern Methodist University (1935–1941, 1945–1949), compiling a career college football record of 143–87–16.
 His 1935 SMU Mustangs, which have been recognized as a national champion, went 12–0 in the regular season before losing to Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
 Bell was also the head basketball coach at Texas Christian for six seasons from 1923 to 1929, tallying a mark of 71–41.
 He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955.
 After retiring from coaching following the 1949 season, Bell served as the athletic director at Southern Methodist until 1964.
 He died in 1983 in Dallas, Texas.

Question: Question: What coach, who was born in 1955 took over for Mike Cavan for the Southern Methodist University football team in 2002?
Answer: Phil Bennett