NCAA hits Ole Miss with additional year of bowl ban, scholarship restrictions

The NCAA banned the? Ole Miss?football team from playing in the postseason in 2018, the Rebels were hit with scholarship reductions and former coach Hugh Freeze was suspended as part of the penalties handed down by the NCAA committee on infractions Friday. The University of Mississippi released a statement saying it would "vigorously appeal" the postseason ban, which it deemed "excessive" and "does not take into account the corrective actions that we have made in personnel, structure, policies and processes to address the issues." Ole Miss (6-6) will not participate in the 2017 postseason because of a self-imposed one-year bowl ban announced in February.