So what happens to the Cap One Bowl loss ?

With the announced sanctions ?
LSU lost however we will will argue that had that been on even a remotely decent field LSU's speed would have hammered Penn State.
BUT... Serious question.
How will that go down now in the LSU record books. I assume like the game never was played since it was vacated instead of fortified.

That means Les has what only 1 bowl loss then . Last year... In the record books

 

Ahh that makes sense....
Wondered how that worked.

 

Nobody wants a win by default anyway. All that's a crock a shit.

 

First time I heard the term vacate for college football (Oklahoma's 2005 season), I was clueless. But I listened to the NCAA press conference and they did a good job of explaining it.

A reporter called and asked the specific question, what happens to this team's record. NCAA rep said that losing team keeps the loss.

When a team vacates games, their opponents' records are not changed. The team vacating loses credit for any wins, but does not forfeit games or get losses added. So an 8-4 season becomes 0-4, not 0-12.

Anyway, we keep the loss to Penn State on our record.

 

Normally I agree with you 100% but considering the condition of the field that day (really about up to junior high/middle school standards), I'm not sure anyone should have been awarded the win to begin with. I always laugh when people say "oh, both teams have to play on the same field". That is hilarious since clearly the faster and shiftier team like LSU was over PSU is the one that is penalized because their better mobility is pretty much useless. Obviously, when the footing is as pathetic as it was that day due to 6 Florida HS CG games being played on that natural field within the previous week and also the Miami-Wisconsin bowl game a few days before, that was an embarassment to college football... guess that explains why they put in artificial turf in that stadium 1 year later.

Bottom line: I would accept that switch to a win in a second....there is 0 doubt in my mind that a game played on a field that meets even high school quality standards, LSU wins that game by 2 scores. IF college football wasn't such a business, that game would have moved to a field that actually appeared remotely like a college football caliber field. LSU and Penn State were just incredibly lucky that no one got a serious injury!

 

coaching was so bad we deserved 2 losses. you should almost never lose to an inferior team given the speed differential.