[personal] [Husker] Oklahoma forfeits 2005 football season; NU went 9-3?

[George Rapp]

On 7/11/07, Skylar Dodds <sklarbodds at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Actually, we're 8-3 that year now (not 8-4).  They didn't "Forfeit" the
> games, they just vacate their wins, meaning the games didn't count.
>
> Therefore, OU was 0-4, not 0-12 as originally thought.


Not sure about that one.  (I wouldn't dream of correcting Skylar on a
baseball topic, but this is football... 8^)  According to the following
quote from the article:

> ... and coach Bob Stoops' career record will be amended to reflect the
forfeitures,
> dropping it from 86-19 in eight seasons to 78-27.

Based on that, looks like the Ws become Ls, at least according to the NCAA
Ministry of Truth ... 8^)

George
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