Florida State vacates 12 football wins
February 7, 2010
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)—Florida State University says it will vacate a 2007bowl victory and 11 regular season football wins, along with dozens more across10 men’s and women’s sports, because of NCAA sanctions.
The school announced which wins would be vacated in a memorandum to the NCAAon Sunday. Last month, the governing body for college sports upheld a previousdecision to strip the school of victories in which 61 athletes involved in anacademic cheating scandal had participated.
Also vacated were 22 men’s basketball wins in 2006-07; 16 women’s basketballvictories in that season and six in the next; and several placings in track andfield, swimming, cross country and golf.
The football wins came under former coach Bobby Bowden, who amassed thesecond-most wins in college football history.
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