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The final blow came from Georgia's dominant defense. Kelee Ringo intercepted an underthrown deep ball and took off for a 79-yard touchdown.

UCLA, Virginia, Boston College and Miami bow out of their bowl games because of an insufficient number of players. Rosters also are depleted by injuries and players opting out of games.

Brent Venables rejoins the Sooners, OSU loses the Big 12 Championship Game and bowl game matchups are set.

For decades, the NCAA has limited the compensation student-athletes can earn based on an antiquated "amateurism" model. However, in the summer of 2021, the Supreme Court ruled the NCAA was being unlawful. Since then, student athletes can now not only be compensated through scholarships, but also paid for their name, image and likeness (NIL), as well.

The NCAA upheld its one-year postseason ban and other penalties against the Oklahoma State men's basketball program on Wednesday.

NCAA spending per Division I and national championship participants was $4,285 for men and $2,588 for women in the 2018-19 season. The gap is even larger for single-gender sports, the report shows.

Head football coach Nick Rolovich and four assistants were fired for defying the state's vaccine mandate. School officials said a small number of university workers chose not to get vaccinated.

There's a fear that states that don't will become less competitive when it comes to recruiting.

The ruling is the culmination of a five-year investigation undertaken by the NCAA following the eruption of the sexual assault scandal at the Christian university in Waco, Texas, in 2016.

Bobby Bowden won 377 games in his career, including two national titles, and took the Florida State University Seminoles to post-season bowl games in 27 consecutive years.