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ESPN: NCAA gets it right with Jeremiah Masoli

On further review, the NCAA got it right.

Ole Miss quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, after initially being ruled ineligible to play this season by the NCAA, had that decision overturned Friday by an appeals committee.

The skeptics will say he beat the system, and maybe he did. But the way the NCAA bylaws read, he has as much right as anybody to transfer to another school after receiving his undergraduate degree, enroll in a graduate program and be eligible to play right away.

He was never dismissed from the University of Oregon. He graduated from Oregon. He was dismissed from the ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: