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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000 Amid the turbulence of this college football season, with its many upsets among the top teams, one thing has remained constant - the team to hold the No. 1 spot on the "Tarnished Twenty," the listing of errant college football teams released annually by FindLaw, the pioneer and leader in online legal information and services. In the just-released Tarnished Twenty 2000, Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. holds the dubious distinction of retaining its first-place ranking from the end of last season. The Tarnished Twenty ranks U.S. college football teams based on the number and severity of ongoing or recently concluded criminal, civil, NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association and other administrative proceedings and investigations involving players, coaches, boosters or other persons or entities associated with a program. FindLaw Sports will post two more editions of the list during this football season to note any changes in ranking; the second edition will be released in early November. "College football players are coddled with many benefits, including tuition, scholarships, athletic wear and tutoring programs," says FindLaw Sports Reporter Tony Rosmiller. "But it seems promoting a positive image both on and off the field somehow gets lost in the race to be the best." Florida State, one of the nation's top-ranked teams for its prowess on the field, retained its No.1 ranking on the Tarnished Twenty for the off-the-field antics of several of its players. One team member was recently arrested for battery after allegedly knocking his girlfriend to the ground, while another reportedly was caught offering to pay an undercover police officer $10 for sex. A shoe-buying scandal ranked University of Wisconsin at No.2. Assault charges and misfired bullets left Auburn University Auburn University, main campus at Auburn, Ala.; land-grant and state supported; opened 1859 as East Alabama Male College, reorganized 1872 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; became coeducational 1892; renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1899, to round out the Top 10. Auburn is one of several teams to reappear reappear Verb to come back into view reappearance n Verb 1. reappear - appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" on the Tarnished Twenty from last season, suggesting there may be greater consistency in team misconduct than in team mettle met·tle n. 1. Courage and fortitude; spirit: troops who showed their mettle in combat. 2. Inherent quality of character and temperament. - at least when this listing is compared against other college football rankings (such as the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Top 25 College Football Poll), which have seen far greater fluctuations. The implications are open to debate on FindLaw's Tarnished Twenty message boards, where visitors to the FindLaw site (http://sports.findlaw.com) can speak their minds and defend their alma mater. "As the conflict grows between college sports and the law, FindLaw will continue to track both the off-the-field problems of major college football programs and the NCAA's sometimes controversial response to those problems," Rosmiller says. The Tarnished Twenty 2000: 1. Florida State University 2. University of Wisconsin 3. University of Tennessee 4. Penn State University 5. University of Miami 6. California State University, Northridge 7. University of Georgia 8. University of Kansas 9. Colorado State University 10. Auburn University 11. Albany State University 12. Texas A&M Kingsville 13. University of Missouri 14. University of South Florida 15. Tennessee State University 16. Arizona State University 17. University of Arkansas 18. Youngstown State University 19. Murray State University 20. University of Indiana The Tarnished Twenty List can be accessed via FindLaw Sports, which offers readers the latest sports news, while providing information on the many legal issues in sports. FindLaw Sports also includes a special section devoted to the use of drugs in amateur and professional sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. 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