Vacated Egg Bowls

[vhdawg]

Just a quick explainer on vacated games. If you win a game that you later vacate, you don't get to count the win or the game in your stats. It's a lost at-bat. If you lose a game that the winning team later vacates, you still lost that game. The loss is not vacated, and you don't gain a win as you would in a forfeit. If you need to see an example of this, look at the records of teams that lost to Alabama from 2005-2007. Alabama's official 2005 record is 0-2, but Mississippi State carries a loss to Alabama in 2005.

As far as the series record is considered, any Egg Bowl games that are vacated are not counted in the overall series record. If you need an example for that, look at Michigan/Ohio State, where Ohio State vacated the 2010 season. Their series record doesn't reflect any result from that specific game. The Egg Bowl would be treated the same if any of those Ole Miss wins are vacated.

Ole Miss has to report back to the NCAA on which games have to be vacated, so until that happens, any assumptions about which games are going to be vacated are just that, assumptions.

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[KeyserSoze1999]

If Tunsil is one of the ineligible players...his playing career covers 3 Egg Bowls, Music City Bowl, Peach Bowl, and the Sugar Bowl (not to mention all the regular season games).

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[00Dawg]

The 2012 Egg Bowl is almost a given in my mind.

What I'm not sure about are the 2014 and 15 Egg Bowls.
At the moment I think we get 2012 and 2014, but not 15.

 

[vhdawg]

To me the real question is who are the players on the ACT deal. Those guys are the ones dealing the majority of the vacated wins. I think they played their cards right on Tunsil.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

Tunsil served his penalty. Vince Sanders (2014) was the last ineligible player from ACT

 

[00Dawg]

They'll lose games from 2014 for Tunsil, but not the Egg Bowl.

At least, that's the way the I read the dates and the appeals process. The newest document says he played in 6 games in 2014 before the appeal was entered.

What we don't know is who SA 16 is for sure. If it's C.J. Hampton, that would cover the 2014 Egg Bowl, but not 2015.

If the ACT group includes Vincent Sanders as Willow Grove suggests, I believe that would cover the 2014 Egg Bowl as well. Until his post, I've assumed Jeff Scott was the most record-impacting ACT-involved player.