By Erick Smith (USAToday.com) — Ohio State announced it will vacate all its football team’s victories during 2010 season, including the controversial Sugar Bowl when five suspended players participated.

The punishment reported by The Columbus Dispatch is part of the school’s response to NCAA charges that players received impermissible benefits in exchange for memorabilia and coach Jim Tressel lied about his knowledge of those violations.

That response was due Friday. The school said it will be made public on July 11, however The Dispatch obtained a copy of the response, which included the following:

“The responsibility is upon Tressel. No other institutional personnel were aware” of the violations, and the former coach failed in his obligation to report them, the response says. “The institution is embarrassed by the actions of Tressel.”

It later added:

“Coach Tressel has explained his thinking at the time, but offers no excuses for his faulty judgment … (he) has paid a terrible price for his mistake, losing his job at one of the premier programs in the country.”

Terrelle Pryor and four other players…..
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