An NCAA investigation found that USC exceeded the allowed number of countable coaches during the 2022 season along with spring practices in 2023.

The USC football team has been put on probation and fined $50,000 for violating NCAA rules, the NCAA announced on Tuesday. The program had eight analysts involved with coaching activities during spring and fall of 2022, and spring of 2023. That is more than the program is allowed to use, and that is what violated NCAA rules.

The NCAA has placed the USC football program on probation stemming from a violation of coaching activities. An investigation, which USC cooperated fully with, found that a total of eight analysts for the program engaged in on and off-field coaching activities in the spring and fall of 2022 as well as the spring of 2023.