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Jun 2, 2009 4:33 pm US/Eastern

NCAA Keeping FSU Appeal Under Wraps

INDIANPOLIS, Ind. (CBS4) ― The NCAA's Committee on Infractions will give Florida State University officials 15 days to answer the Committee's findings about FSU's appeal of NCAA sanctions. But the NCAA's answer to FSU's appeal was being kept under wraps by college's governing body. Florida State is appealing a portion of the sanctions announced in March that would force the school to vacate as many as 14 of Bowden's 382 career wins.

Bowden is only one victory behind the all-time major college football leader, Joe Paterno of Penn State. Paterno is already an octogenarian, and Bowden will be 80 during the current football season. Both coaches seem to be willing to coach until the other retires and thereby capture the all-time career wins title.

The sanctions come from a wide-spread cheating scandal that involved over 20 football players and a total of 61 Florida State athletes. The athletes cheated on an Internet-based class.

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