LSU fined $250K for 3rd field storming violation

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  • Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The SEC has imposed different six-figure good for fans storming the field, this clip hitting LSU with a $250,000 penalty.

The league announced the good Sunday aft LSU fans stormed the tract to observe a 45-20 win implicit No. 15 Ole Miss. The Rebels were ranked seventh astatine the time.

The triumph vaulted LSU backmost into the rankings astatine No. 18 but proved costly.

This is LSU's 3rd usurpation of the SEC's entree to contention country policy. LSU was past fined for a usurpation pursuing a triumph implicit then-No. 2 Georgia successful 2018.

Tennessee was fined $100,000 for its postgame solemnisation of a triumph implicit No. 6 Alabama connected Oct. 15. Fans heaved the uprooted goalposts into the Tennessee River.

Fines commencement astatine $50,000 for a archetypal discourtesy past spell to $100,000 for a 2nd discourtesy and $250,000 for each 1 aft that. The good wealth is deposited into the SEC Post-Graduate Scholarship Fund.

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