College football season is almost back, but the season never seemed to actually end in the first place.

Over the past few months, scandal after scandal has began to surface. From coast to coast, teams are taking the field and universities are reacting and recovering to a variety of events involving Ponzi schemes and selling team memorabilia for profit. The NCAA has been busy with investigations.

Dj Gallo from ESPN wrote “2011 offseason scandal power rankings” published June 30, if you would like a quick recap of the teams that were in the news.

More recently University of Miami has also been added to the list for having a former booster involved in a Ponzi scheme. Now, the Miami Herald reports 12 or more football players that are being investigated may be ineligible for the season opener Sept. 5 at Maryland. Read more here.

Of course, these football scandals aren’t anything new for the collegiate community. UNP has published Scoreboard Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry which goes behind the scenes of the University of Washington’s 2000 scandalous and crime filled football season. Find out more about what the authors uncovered and recent parallelisms to today's football programs with a Q&A in Inside Higher Ed.