In 1981, Clemson celebrated its only national championship in college football, under coach Danny Ford, and the school’s first of any type. Less than one year later, the NCAA found Clemson in violation of a multitude of NCAA rules. These infractions ranged from improper benefits to recruiting violations.The NCAA came down harshly on Clemson. The Tigers received a two-year postseason ban (1982-83), reduced the number of scholarships from 30 to 20 for the 1983-84 seasons ...

Today Ohio State responded to the April 25 NCAA Notice of Allegations and decided that vacating all 2010 wins was sufficient to prevent further sanctions. Ohio State allowed their head football coach Jim Tressel to retire with $52,000 pay and no fines as previously announced because he lied to the NCAA and covered up the fact that there were at least five ineligible Buckeyes who played the entire 2010 season. Several media sources have identified ...

Penn State linebacker Michael Mauti has just been placed on the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Award, a distinction that places him among the best defensive players in the country.With that in mind, it is important to note that while we continue to talk about the quarterback situation in Happy Valley, it is always easy to overlook a defense that is a perennial powerhouse nationally.The tradition of developing great linebackers has deemed Penn State ...

By now, I'll guess that just about everyone understands who Russell Wilson is, his departure from NC State, and his arrival to Wisconsin. Wilson reportedly pondered also playing at Auburn and taking the next step in his baseball career as well as considering Wisconsin after he left the NC State program, thanks to coach Tom O'Brien wanting more definition about the future of his NC State football team. Wilson moves drastically up north to Madison, ...

Ohio State vacated its entire 2010 season. The victories forfeited include a Sugar Bowl victory over Arkansas. The vacating of wins is a attempt to keep the NCAA from imposing harsher sanctions on the Buckeyes for the Terrelle Pryor/Jim Tressel scandal. While Ohio State vacated its wins, it failed to impose the harsher sanctions of a postseason ban and scholarship reductions. At the end of the day, the Buckeyes self-imposed penalty means absolutely nothing. Vacating ...

As was speculated several months back, it looks like Caleb King is going to miss the 2011 football season due to academic eligibility issues.  CBS Sports and others are reporting the news. At around noon today, King sent a message through his Twitter account reading “Somethings u cant control, and what seems bad right now might turn out good.”  King also offered encouragement for his teammates left behind at UGA.  Orson Charles and others have ...

CBSSports.com is reporting that senior running back Caleb King has been ruled academically ineligible for the 2011 college football season.This serves as a major blow to a Georgia Bulldog team that has been picked by many to win the SEC East and play in the conference championship in Atlanta.Georgia has already lost last year's top running back Washaun Ealey, who transferred to Jacksonville State, after getting fed up with clashing with the Bulldogs' coaching staff.King ...

ESPN.com reported Friday afternoon that the Ohio State Buckeyes responded to NCAA charges of major violations by proposing vacating all wins from their 12-1 season in 2010. This includes the 2011 Sugar Bowl.WBNS Channel 10 also reported the Buckeyes would make changes to their compliance department and place themselves on probation for two years. Former head coach Jim Tressel's status would also change from resigned to retired under these proposed violations.These proposed sanctions by the Buckeyes ...

The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team has been tabbed one of the favorites to win the Big Ten in its inaugural season, and one reason for that is an influx of talent from a strong 2011 recruiting class.  However, some of the lesser-known pieces of this class could potentially make bigger and earlier impacts than their heavily touted counterparts.These underrated players have the talent and ability to make big impacts for the Huskers—what they don't have ...

Coming off a season where a lot went wrong, the California Golden Bears are hoping for some dreams to come true in 2011.The Golden Bears finished last season with a disappointing five wins and seven losses, including six conference losses and a crushing defeat to mid-major Nevada.To make matters worse for Cal, the team suffered key losses to graduation and the NFL. Shane Vereen, Kevin Riley, Mike Mohamed, and Cameron Jordan were all key players ...