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NCAA announces penalties for Rutgers football program: Read the full report HERE

Rutgers University on Friday learned its fate following the NCAA's two-year probe into the football program.

Rutgers avoided the most serious penalties, including a bowl ban, scholarship reductions or vacating wins.

The NCAA mostly accepted the university's self-imposed sanctions as part of the wide-ranging case, but it did impose two years of probation on the university's athletic department.

You can read the full report from the NCAA here:

In December 2016, the NCAA issued Rutgers with a Notice of Allegations that included charges of widespread drug use by players that was covered up, as well as improprieties with the football program's mostly female student-ambassador recruiting program, and former head coach Kyle Flood's violation of the university's compliance policy for contacting faculty and attempting to change a player's grade.