Tennessee must vacate these wins as a penalty for the NCAA recruiting violations under Jeremy Pruitt because ineligible players played in the games.
USA TODAY Sports' Paul Meyerberg breaks down the top college football teams heading into next season.Tennessee has dropped from the top 10 in all-time college football victories after the program was forced to vacate wins recorded in two seasons under Jeremy Pruitt as part ofAll 11 wins in the 2019 and 2020 Tennessee football seasons have been wiped from the record books.
Tennessee acknowledged that 16 players competed while ineligible in those games because they were involved in any of the 18 highest-level violations and 200 individual infractions committed during Pruitt's tenure from 2018 to early 2021. The penalty is part of Tennessee's five-year probation, which also includes 28 scholarship cuts, recruiting restrictions and a fine of more than $8 million, but not a postseason ban.
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