The University of Mississippi announced Friday it will appeal its bowl ban after the NCAA's Committee on Infractions hit the school's football program with 21 rules violations and charged it with a lack of institutional control.
"We have the best legal team in the country to handle our NCAA appeal," Ole Miss chancellor Jeffrey Vitter said in a release, according to Yahoo Sports. "We added Mississippi-based firms to further strengthen an already exceptional team so that we are in the best possible position to win this appeal. We believe the additional penalties imposed by the COI are unwarranted, which we will make very clear at the appropriate time in our written submissions on the merits of our appeal.