Quote:UCF officially announced on Monday that the NCAA granted its appeal of a one-year bowl ban, making the football team eligible for postseason play in 2013.

Quote:According to the UCF release, the NCAA report said that, “the penalty in question was based in significant part on irrelevant factors resulting in an abuse of discretion” by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

Quote:In its appeal of the football postseason ban, UCF cited that the Committee on Infractions does not adequately distinguish between what factored into the basis of the football postseason ban versus the basketball postseason, and therefore should be vacated. In its decision, the Infractions Appeals Committee stated that the rationale for the football postseason ban penalty is so intricately woven with factors only supportive of the basketball postseason ban that it is impossible to determine whether the additional factors formed a significant basis for the Committee on Infractions to impose the football postseason ban. The record creates the appearance that the Committee on Infractions relied on material factors not present for a particular sport to assess the penalty. Therefore, the Infractions Appeals Committee determined the football postseason ban is excessive such that it constitutes an abuse of discretion and vacated the penalty.