Paterno to be winningest coach again

— -- All of Joe Paterno's 111 wins, plus one under an interim coach, that were vacated between 1998 and 2011 will be restored and consent decree between the NCAA and Penn State has been invalidated, according to ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr.

A settlement in Pennsylvania Senate majority leader Jake Corman's suit against the NCAA was reached Friday, and as a result, Paterno will once again be the winningest coach in major college football history with 409 victories. 

Corman and state Treasurer Rob McCord had sued the NCAA over Penn State's punishment by the NCAA in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. 

One issue at stake was the 112 football team wins erased by the consent decree. 

The developments follow the NCAA's decision last year to reinstate the school's full complement of football scholarships and let Penn State participate in post-season play, and they come just days after a federal judge declined to rule on the consent decree's constitutionality.

The consent decree sprang from the scandal that erupted when Sandusky, a retired football assistant coach, was accused of sexually abusing boys, some of them on Penn State's campus.

It eliminated all wins from 1998 -- when police investigated a mother's complaint that Sandusky had showered with her son -- through 2011, Paterno's final season as head coach after six decades with the team and the year Sandusky was charged. Paterno died a couple months later of lung cancer, at 85.

The consent decree had also called for Penn State to provide $60 million to fight child abuse and combat its effects. The lawsuit scheduled for trial next month began as an effort by Corman and McCord to enforce a state law that required the money to remain in Pennsylvania.

The 2012 consent decree was signed by Penn State's then-president, Rodney Erickson, a month after a jury convicted Sandusky. He is now serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence but maintains his innocence.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.