Rice Declares Itself ’09 BCS Champ After Opponents, Others Vacate Wins Due to Violations

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HOUSTON—Rice’s football program has crowned itself 2009 BCS champion after the team’s opponents and a handful of other schools—including ex-national champion Florida and runner-up Oklahoma—stripped themselves of all wins in that season due to NCAA violations.

Vanderbilt, Texas, and Tulsa—the teams that gave Rice its three losses during the ’08-‘09 season—announced today that their wins from that year would be vacated, giving the Owls a 13-0 record.