Louisiana high school football team forced to forfeit 7 wins, planning to appeal ruling

One of the top teams in Louisiana high school football is now winless after being forced to forfeit seven wins by the state’s athletic association on Monday.

Baton Rouge University Lab, which sat at 7-2 after last week’s loss to Madison Prep Academy, was stripped of its victories because of a reported ineligible player, according to TheAdvocate.com.

Rumors had been circulating about an LHSAA investigation into the program for potentially using ineligible player(s), and on Monday, the LHSAA confirmed the forfeits by updating the team’s record to reflect nine losses on the state association’s website.

The school told WBRZ-TV that it will be appealing the decision.

Coming into the week, the Cubs were one of the state’s top 25 teams and a major contender for the Class 3A state title next month.

University Lab’s roster features some of the state’s top prospects in the 2025 and 2026 classes, including five-star offensive tackle Lamar Brown and four-star linebacker and LSU commit Keylan Moses.

The Cubs are still scheduled to play Port Allen this weekend in their final regular season game of the year.

Louisiana not the only state dealing with similar issues

The forfeitures are not an issue limited to Louisiana. In the past week alone, schools in Texas, Florida and Maryland — including multiple state contenders — have been forced to vacate wins due to similar investigations into eligible players.

On Monday, Matt Stepp of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football reported that the Dallas Independent School District has ruled Samuell High will forfeit each of its seven wins this season after using ineligible players.

The Spartans were 7-2 heading into this weekend’s game against winless Spruce and had a 4-2 district record. Had they won this weekend, they would’ve made the bi-district round of the playoffs as one of the top four teams in Class 5A-II District 5.

Now though, their postseason hopes look to be all but gone after Monday’s ruling.

In Florida, one of the top high school football programs in the country, Miami Central, has been retroactively forced to forfeit nine games this season because of the use of an ineligible player, the Florida High School Athletic Association ruled on Monday.

Miami Central self-reported the violation to the FHSAA, according to SI High School’s Andy Villamarzo. In accordance with FHSAA’s bylaw 10.2.1, the Rockets’ record has been changed to 0-9 with the postseason bracket reveal less than a week away.

That follows a report from the Orlando Sentinel over the weekend that The First Academy (TFA) was found guilty of multiple rule violations. As a result, the Royals will be on restrictive probation until Dec. 20, 2025. That decision means forfeiting all their wins during this year’s Florida high school football season and having to sit out the playoffs in 2024 and 2025.