Charleston Southern’s bid to upset No. 3 Florida State appears over before it began.

According to multiple reports and Buccaneers football players’ social media accounts, Charleston Southern will be without upwards of 30 players for Saturday’s game in Tallahassee, Fla., due to suspensions handed down by the NCAA. The short-handed team still is suiting up against the powerhouse Seminoles.

The NCAA’s suspensions are due to players using extra money originally given to them to pay for books for other bookstore products.

“So basically about 30+ players on my team including me have been suspended for using book money to buy other things in the book store like pencils, binders and electronic,” running back Ben Robinson wrote on his Facebook page. “The workers in the bookstore advised us to spend the money because we would not get it back, so we did.

“Now the school and the NCAA are saying that is against the rules.”

Robinson isn’t the only Buccaneers player to air his grievances over a social media platform.

Wide receiver Colton Korn suggested the university is on a witch hunt after the team has sat 16 players over the course of the first two weeks of the season.

“I’m bewildered at the at the lack of respect the university is showing us athletes and student body as a whole,” he wrote on Facebook. “Nobody is going to want to come to a ‘university’ where students and athletes are treated lesser than every other college student.”

Nevertheless, the NCAA rule book seems to be clear on the matter. It states institutions can hand out money to players for book purchases, but only the exact amount needed to buy the books.

Yet, it is apparent the Charleston Southern administration did not properly explain the rule to its players or else the Buccaneers likely would have a full complement of players this weekend.

“It is unfortunate Charleston Southern University only cares about itself as an institution,” offensive lineman Frank Cirone wrote on Facebook. “The protection of its students/athletes should be a number one priority. This is the second time in two years I am ineligible to participate due to issues that could of been avoided if the necessary steps were taken by Charleston Southern.”

This isn’t the first round of suspensions the team has been dealt this season either.

Head coach Jamey Chadwell and an unnamed assistant have to serve a one-game suspension because of the use of social media for recruiting. He will serve his suspension against Albany State on Oct. 8.

Charleston Southern is 1-1 this season, losing 24-17 to North Dakota State in overtime and routing Kentucky State 57-7 last week.

The Buccaneers were ranked No. 7 in the STATS FCS Preseason Top 25 Poll, the first time in program history they were ranked in the FCS’s main preseason media poll.