The team exceeded conference rules in distribution of need-based financial aid to athletes and was declared ineligible.

Under conference rules, each team is given successive possessions at the opponent's 25-yard line until one team wins.

Cross had explicitly warned Tatum not to do so, as it was a violation of conference rules.

He and Byrd, however, had also disagreed over the decision to participate in bowl games in violation of conference rules.

Oregon State did not play in a bowl game, due to conference rules.

Brewer hoped to rescind the new conference rule and return the game to Kansas City.

By conference rule, any student-athlete that was recruited in violation of this ban was automatically ineligible.

According to Webb, the university nevertheless allowed Harmon to play in violation of conference rules.

That spring, allegations circulated that Iowa was paying athletes in violation of conference rules.

As we are bound by the conference rules of confidentiality, we can reveal little about that brief discussion.