College Football Cheaters

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RealBear65
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Following are 2 listings of college football cheaters (since 1910) as defined by the number of games they either had to forfeit or vacated by cheating convictions/admissions. I note that our former coach's father, Spike Dykes, is the biggest cheater in NCAA football history.

Cheaters By School:
Team / Yrs / Gms
Texas Tech / 7 Yrs / 43 Gms
Alabama / 4 Yrs / 33 Gms
Miss St. / 3 Yrs / 19 Gms
No. Carolina / 2 Yrs / 16 Gms
USC / 1 Yr / 14 Gms
Ohio St. / 1 Yr / 13 Gms
Florida St. / 2 Yrs / 12 Gms
Syracuse / 3 Yrs / 11 Gms
UNLV / 1 Yr / 11 Gms
Arkansas St. / 2 Yrs / 10 Gms
SMU / 1 Yr / 10 Gms
UCLA / 1 Yr / 7 Gms
Temple / 1 Yr / 6 Gms
Arizona St. / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Colorado / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Michigan St. / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Cal / 1 Yr / 4 Gms
Tulane / 1 Yr / 4 Gms
Oklahoma / 1 Yr / 3 Gms
Kansas / 2 Yrs / 2 Gms
Kansas St. / 1 Yr / 2 Gms
Baylor / 1 Yr / 1 Gm
Georgia Tech / 1 Yr / 1 Gm
Houston / 1 Yr / 1 Gm
Texas A&M / 1 Yr / 1 Gm

Cheaters By Head Coach:
Head Coach / Yrs / Gms
Spike Dykes / 7 Yrs / 43 Gms
Bob Tyler / 3 Yrs / 19 Gms
Butch Davis / 2 Yrs / 16 Gms
Mike Shula / 2 Yrs / 16 Gms
Pete Carroll / 2 Yrs / 14 Gms
Jim Tressel / 1 Yr / 13 Gms
Gene Stallings / 1 Yr / 12 Gms
Harvey Hyde / 1 Yr / 11 Gms
Steve Roberts / 2 Yrs / 10 Gms
Mike Cavan / 1 Yr / 10 Gms
Terry Donahue / 1 Yr / 7 Gms
Bruce Arians / 1 Yr / 6 Gms
Paul Pasqualoni / 1 Yr / 6 Gms
Greg Robinson / 2 Yrs / 5 Gms
Frank Kush / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
George Perles / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Nick Saban / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Rick Neuheisel / 1 Yr / 5 Gms
Tom Holmoe / 1 Yr / 4 Gms
Wally English / 1 Yr / 4 Gms
Chuck Fairbanks / 1 Yr / 3 Gms
Bill Meek / 1 Yr / 2 Gms
6 Others with 1 game each

NCAA investigative capabilities and enforcement were almost non-existent prior to the 1960s during which there were lots of violations that were never exposed.

Data Source: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/friv/forfeits.html
dajo9
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No sign of Penn State. What a clean program <sarcasm>.
Oski87
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To be fair to Spike Dykes - the football team was not the specific problem. The entire Athletic Department at Texas Tech was sanctioned for the way they applied progress toward graduation.
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