The NCAA is ordering Notre Dame to vacate wins in the 2012 and 2013 football seasons, part of their penalties in connection to the Frozen Five academic misconduct investigation that derailed the 2014 season. Notre Dame plans to appeal the decision.
The NCAA found that a former student athletic trainer committed academic misconduct for two football student-athletes and provided six other football players with impermissible academic extra benefits. Another football student-athlete committed academic misconduct on their own. They put the Irish program on one year of probation and a two-year show-cause order for the former student trainer. They also levied a $5,000 fine against the university.