Mississippi gets 2-year bowl ban, other penalties in NCAA case
Mississippi’s football program on Friday was handed a two-year postseason ban and other penalties by the NCAA.
The Committee on Infractions came down hard on Ole Miss, which went 6-6 but had self-imposed a bowl ban this year. It had hoped to avoid a ban next season in connection with its long-running rules-violation case, which that included a charge of lack of institutional control, but the NCAA banned the Rebels from the postseason for the 2018 season as well.
Ole Miss had also self-imposed other punishments in anticipation of the ruling, including scholarship reductions and recruiting restrictions. T
The complicated case consisted of 21 alleged violations, including 15 that were Level I, which the NCAA considers the most serious.
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