FSU says forfeits unfair

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State said in an appeal that it is unfair to take wins off the individual records of football coach Bobby Bowden and other coaches and athletes who had no role in an academic cheating scandal.

If the penalty is not reversed, it would cost Bowden up to 14 wins, and that would give him little chance of catching Penn State’s Joe Paterno in their race to be major college football’s winningest coach. Paterno has 383 wins, Bowden 382.