After a number of back and forths, it looks like Joe Paterno will likely end his coaching career at the top of collegiate wins, thanks to the NCAA’s ruling against Florida State and Bobby Bowden. If the NCAA’s ruling stands, Bowden will vacate fourteen wins. At current count, Paterno leads bowden 383-382 heading into the [...]
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The NCAA turned down Florida State’s proposal that a “blue-ribbon committee” be formed to review the policy of vacating wins as a form of punishment, and that the policy be suspended from use while it is under review, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel.
T.K. Wetherell, president of Florida State — which on March [...]
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden is supporting the university’s appeal of an NCAA sanction stripping wins from Seminoles sports teams whose athletes were involved in an academic fraud scandal.
Under the NCAA penalties, 10 of the school’s sports teams are being forced to vacate wins involving athletes who cheated — including as many as 14 wins [...]
The horse race between Joe Paterno of Penn State and Bobby Bowden of Florida State for the most victories in the history of major college football came to an abrupt halt Friday. Bowden, a game behind Paterno when the 2008 season ended, has pulled up lame due to a case of academic fraud.
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