Florida, Oklahoma to play for No. 1
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:49:53 PST)
Bob Stoops posed next to the crystal football and played along with a wave of photographers. They asked him to look to the left, he did. They asked him to smile, he did. Any shot they wanted Wednesday inside a hotel ballroom, he gave them. Then a shutterbug shouted to the Oklahoma coach, telling him to hold up his finger, showing who's No.

Yale hires its first black head coach
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:07:10 PST)
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive assistant Tom Williams was introduced Wednesday as the head football coach at Yale, making him the first African-American to hold the job and only the second black coach in the Ivy League. Williams replaces Jack Siedlecki, who retired in November after 12 seasons to become an assistant athletic director at the school.

Seminoles star DE Brown headed to NFL
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:46:25 PST)
Florida State pass rusher Everette Brown is leaving school a year early for the NFL draft. Brown led the Atlantic Coast Conference in sacks and tackles for loss this past season. He was a near-unanimous pick for the all-conference team and was a second-team All-American. The school announced Brown's decision Wednesday.

Louisville backup QB Simms to transfer
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:21 PST)
Louisville's football coach says quarterback Matt Simms will transfer from the program. In a statement from the university, coach Steve Kragthorpe says Simms told him of his desire to transfer and said he wishes Simms the best. The release did not say where Simms would go. Simms is the son of Phil Simms, the 1987 Super Bowl MVP and television sports broadcaster.

Utah AG: BCS may violate antitrust laws
(Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:54 PST)
Utah's attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after an undefeated Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years. Attorney General Mark Shurtleff contends the BCS unfairly puts schools like Utah, which is a member of a conference without an automatic bid to the lucrative bowl games, at a...

Bradford out to end Oklahoma QB jinx
(Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:30:02 PST)
Sam Bradford is well aware of the problems Heisman Trophy winners have had in the postseason. Same goes for Oklahoma quarterbacks. He just happens to be both. "You don't need to think about negative things," he said. "I think I'm just going to prepare like a normal game." Some of the most prolific quarterbacks in the Sooners' storied history have fallen flat on college football's biggest stage in the...

Maryland WR Heyward-Bey to enter draft
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:11:18 PST)
Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey will skip his senior season and enter the 2009 NFL draft. Heyward-Bey ranks second in school history in career receiving yards (2,089), is third in receptions (138) and tied for third in touchdown catches (13). "After the bowl game I sat down with my mom, my aunt and coach (Ralph) Friedgen to explore my options and felt like the time is right to take my...

Florida State, South Florida to meet
(Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:32:56 PST)
Florida State and the University of South Florida will meet in football for the first time in September. The Bulls of the Big East Conference will visit the Seminoles of the Atlantic Coast Conference on Sept. 26, with a second game set for Sept. 29, 2012 at USF, which plays its home games in the same stadium as the NFL's Tampa Bay Bucs.