Utah’s state legislature is calling for a playoff system to determine college football’s national champion after an undefeated University of Utah was shut out of the national title game for the second time in four years. With University of Utah football players on hand, the state senate adopted a resolution Monday it wants sent to [...]
Oregon coach Mike Bellotti wants college football to have tougher penalties against unsportsmanlike conduct and dangerous hits. Now it’s time to find out whether his coaching colleagues agree with his suggestions. Bellotti, the NCAA football rules committee chairman, said Wednesday officials should eject more players for flagrant personal fouls, and agreed to seek input on [...]
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz has agreed to a new, seven-year contract that includes the same salary and bonus structures as his previous deal. Athletic director Gary Barta made the announcement on Thursday. The contract will run through the 2015 season. Last year, Ferentz’s average annual salary was $2.84 million. Under the new agreement, Ferentz’s assistant [...]
Coach Charlie Weis will take over offensive coordinator duties for Notre Dame next season, the biggest in a series of changes in coaching responsibilities announced Friday. Defensive coordinator Corwin Brown will share the title of defensive coordinator with Jon Tenuta while adding the title of associate head coach. Tenuta, the linebackers coach, will call plays [...]
Washington is self-reporting to the Pac-10 Conference a second recruiting violation this month by new football coach Steve Sarkisian. Though the violations are secondary, any such missteps are a sensitive issue for Washington, a former national power program that’s been in disarray for most of this decade. The Huskies were the only winless team in [...]
For years, generations of Thomas Luck’s family supported the University of Tennessee and its endeavors. But the Nashville lawyer on Friday squared off against his alma mater in a Nashville courtroom in a dispute over prime box seats at Neyland Stadium. In a lawsuit, Luck wants the seating rights that were given to his father [...]
Texas quarterback Colt McCoy confirmed that he’ll return to the Longhorns for his senior season in 2009. McCoy has led No. 3 Texas (11-1) to a Fiesta Bowl matchup against Ohio State with 3,445 yards passing and 32 touchdowns, both team records. He’s also the team’s leading rusher with 576 yards and is expected to [...]
Wake Forest senior Aaron Curry has won the Butkus Award honoring the nation’s top college linebacker. Curry received 63 points in voting, finishing seven ahead of USC’s Rey Maualuga. James Laurinaitis from Ohio State, USC’s Brian Cushing and Boston College’s Mark Herzlich rounded out the top five. Curry finished the regular season with 101 tackles, [...]
Florida was No. 1, Oklahoma No. 2 and Texas’ chances of getting a championship trophy took a hit. The Longhorns were No. 3 in the Associated Press college football poll released Sunday, behind the two teams expected to be matched later in the day in the national title game Jan. 8 in Miami. The Gators [...]
By the time Mossis Madu sprinted into the end zone in a half-empty stadium, Oklahoma was done making its point. Here’s what Sam Bradford and the high-scoring Sooners wanted to drive home: They belong in the BCS championship game. The No. 4 Sooners did that with a 62-21 blowout of No. 19 Missouri for the [...]
