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Report: NCAA Threatens to Vacate Wins and Erase Stats as Eligibility Lawsuits Escalate

Originally posted on Total Pro Sports | By Sanu Abraham | Last updated Feb 19, 2026 3:26 PM ET

Courts have been outrunning the NCAA for over a year now. Judges grant injunctions, players suit up, seasons happen. Everyone moves on. Except the NCAA hasn’t moved on, and schools that thought a court order was good enough cover are now learning that assumption may have been expensive.

Per On3, the NCAA is threatening to vacate wins, erase stats, and fine programs if it wins its ongoing eligibility lawsuits. Indiana, Memphis, and San Diego State are the schools most directly exposed right now. Indiana’s case cuts deepest. Safety Louis Moore, cleared to play by a court injunction while his case ran through a Texas court, appeared in all 16 games for the national champion Hoosiers. He finished third on the team with 88 tackles. That case is still open.

Nobody thinks Indiana loses a championship over this. That’s not really the point. Florida-based attorney Darren Heitner, who represented Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako in a parallel dispute, bluntly framed the NCAA’s position. “Does the NCAA really want to invite more scrutiny and litigation?” he said. “I don’t think that’s a fight the NCAA wants in 2026. Maybe in the 1970s.” What the NCAA actually wants is precedent, deterrence, and the legal option to fine schools. It’s playing a longer game.

Indiana isn’t alone in this. Twelve athletes received eligibility injunctions across college sports in the last year. The exposure is wider than most programs realize.

The Floodgates Aren’t Closed Yet For NCAA

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Another fight is developing that could dwarf everything above it. Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar is waiting on a ruling after arguing his junior college years shouldn’t count against his NCAA eligibility clock. It’s a different argument than anyone has won before.

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss just received a sixth year of eligibility through a Mississippi court, but his case hinged on a documented medical issue and a denied redshirt. Aguilar’s argument lacks such a footing. If he wins anyway, every player with JUCO time suddenly has a roadmap to more eligibility. The lawsuit calendar fills up overnight.

Schools leaned on court orders to build their rosters. The NCAA is now leaning back. Someone’s version of this season is about to look very different on paper.

This article first appeared on Total Pro Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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