Florida State will vacate athletic victories from 2006 and 2007, including 12 credited to former football coach Bobby Bowden, as part of its penalty for an academic fraud scandal in 2006-07 involving 61 student-athletes, the school announced.
Last month, the NCAA upheld Florida State's appeal of sanctions affecting Bowden and nine other teams stemming from a cheating scandal involving an online music course. The vacation of wins was the only penalty Florida State appealed.
The football team vacated five wins from the 2006 season, including the Emerald Bowl at the end of that season, and seven wins from 2007.
Bowden retired after the 2009 season with 389 wins over a 57-year career, the second most in major college football behind Penn State's Joe Paterno. The penalty leaves him with 377 wins.
The university also gave up its 2007 NCAA Division I championship in men's track and field and NCAA tournament victories in women's basketball and baseball. The men's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's track and field, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's golf teams also vacated wins.
Under the penalty, the NCAA said it was up to Florida State to determine which wins were to be vacated.
