Fla. St. To Forfeit 12 Football Wins, Track Title
Florida State announced on Sunday that it would be forfeiting 12 wins in football and a track title stemming from an academic fraud scandal involving 61 student-athletes in 2006-07.
With coach Bobby Bowden’s retirement from Florida State football after 30 plus years, he now finishes his college football career with 377 career wins. That leaves Bowden short of Joe Paterno, the head coach of Penn State, for all-time wins for a coach.
Florida State appealed the NCAA’s ruling to vacate the wins, but the NCAA upheld their ruling.
The penalty also meant that the school had to relinquish its 2007 NCAA track and field championship, and NCAA tournament victories in both women’s basketball and baseball. The school gave up 22 men’s basketball wins, including two wins in the NIT.
