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FSU Replaces West Va. With Savannah St.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State has replaced peren­nial col­lege foot­ball power West Vir­ginia on its 2012 sched­ule with lit­tle Savan­nah State. The Semi­noles will host The Tigers, from the Foot­ball Cham­pi­onship Sub­di­vi­sion, on Sept. 8 as a replace­ment oppo­nent for the Moun­taineers. West Vir­ginia broke the front end of a home-and-home con­tract with the Semi­noles to osten­si­bly accom­mo­date their move from the Big East Con­fer­ence to the Big 12. Ath­letic Direc­tor Randy Spet­man and his top asso­ciate, Monk Bona­sorte, said Wednes­day they... 

Texas Planning Statue of Ricky Williams

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will honor for­mer Heis­man Tro­phy win­ner Ricky Williams with a statue at the foot­ball sta­dium that be unveiled at the Long­horns’ annual spring game on April 1. The 8-foot, 1,000-pound bronze fig­ure will stand next to a statue of Earl Camp­bell, another for­mer Texas Heis­man winner. Williams won the Heis­man in 1998 and fin­ished his Long­horns career as the NCAA career rush­ing leader. He recently retired from the NFL. Texas retired William’s No. 34 jer­sey in 2000. Cleve­land artist David Dem­ming, who taught at Texas for 26 years, was com­mis­sioned... 

Florida State RB Wilder Arrested

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Author­i­ties say Florida State tail­back James Wilder Jr. was arrested after a con­fronta­tion with deputies. Florida’s Leon County Sheriff’s Office reports the 19-year-old was at a Tal­la­has­see apart­ment Tues­day when deputies went to arrest a 20-year-old woman for miss­ing a court appear­ance. As a deputy escorted the woman to a patrol car, a sheriff’s report says, Wilder stepped between the deputy and the woman and pushed the deputy. Wilder was arrested and charged with obstruct­ing a law enforce­ment offi­cer with­out vio­lence and bat­tery... 

ACC Files Complaint With SEC Over Vandy

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Van­der­bilt offi­cials say the Atlantic Coast Con­fer­ence has filed a for­mal com­plaint for one of its mem­bers with the South­east­ern Con­fer­ence involv­ing the Com­modores’ foot­ball team. Vice chan­cel­lor David Williams said in a state­ment Wednes­day that the SEC informed Van­der­bilt of the complaint. “We are com­ply­ing with SEC and Van­der­bilt pro­ce­dures and are con­duct­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion on the mat­ter,” Williams said. The SEC declined com­ment, and the ACC did not respond to a request for a response. Mary­land... 

Boise Stays in Mountain West Next Season

BOISE, Idaho — Boise State’s highly suc­cess­ful foot­ball pro­gram won’t be mov­ing to the Big East early. The school announced on Wednes­day that despite repeated con­ver­sa­tions with the Big East, the Bron­cos will remain in the Moun­tain West for the 2012–13 ath­letic seasons. In a state­ment, the school said there were too many obsta­cles and finan­cial con­cerns to make the move a year ear­lier than expected. “While we have had sev­eral dis­cus­sions with the Big East and the WAC in mov­ing our sports into those two leagues a year ear­lier than pre­vi­ously... 

Temple in Talks to Join Big East

PHILADELPHIA — Tem­ple and the Big East are talk­ing about the Owls rejoin­ing the con­fer­ence as soon as next season. MAC Com­mis­sioner Jon A. Stein­brecher said in a state­ment Wednes­day that his league is “aware that Tem­ple has been in dis­cus­sions with the Big East regard­ing membership.” A per­son famil­iar with the talks says the school and the Big East are try­ing to nego­ti­ate a deal that could have Tem­ple in the league for all sports by next sea­son. The per­son spoke Wednes­day to The Asso­ci­ated Press on con­di­tion of anonymity because the talks... 

Top WR Recruit Neal Signs With Irish

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Highly rated wide receiver recruit Davonte Neal from Scotts­dale, Ariz., has signed a let­ter of intent with Notre Dame. The 5–10, 175-pound Neal was con­sid­ered the highest-rated recruit still unsigned by most ana­lysts. He helped Chap­ar­ral High School to back-to-back championships. Neal caught 62 passes for 1,113 yards and 16 TDs, rushed for 1,317 yards and 14 TDs, returned three kick­offs for TDs and posted two punt return TDs in 2011. Notre Dame lost out on its top receiver recruit on sign­ing day back on Feb. 1 when Deon­tay Green­berry signed with Hous­ton... 

BCS in No Rush to Decide on System

How many teams will be allowed to play for the national cham­pi­onship is just one of the many issues being con­sid­ered by the guys who run the BCS. When the games will be played is a hot topic, too. The 11 con­fer­ence com­mis­sion­ers and Notre Dame’s ath­letic direc­tor met Tues­day in Dal­las, along with BCS Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bill Han­cock to resume dis­cussing pos­si­ble changes to col­lege football’s postseason. While there seems to be grow­ing sup­port for cre­at­ing a four-team play­off to deter­mine a cham­pion, how exactly that would work and when... 

What Has Happened to Randy Edsall?

I’m hav­ing a hard time remem­ber­ing any coach more uni­ver­sally despised than Randy Edsall. Edsall, who at one point was viewed as some­thing of a sav­ior dur­ing his mostly suc­cess­ful tenure at UConn, has not enjoyed quite the same warm-and-fuzzy recep­tion down in Col­lege Park, Md. Indeed, it can jus­ti­fi­ably be said that Edsall’s stay with Mary­land has thus far been noth­ing short of a disaster. There are myr­iad rea­sons, of course. There was the shame­less and gut­less man­ner in which he left UConn. There is the 2–10 record he deliv­ered in his first... 

Vikings Reach Deal to Use TCF Stadium

MINNE OLIS — The Min­nesota Vikings say the orga­ni­za­tion has reached aten­ta­tive deal with the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota on how much the team will pay touse TCF Sta­dium while a new Vikings sta­dium is being built. Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley declined to name a dol­lar amount, but saidthe “agree­ment in prin­ci­ple” would add about 3,000 tem­po­rary end zone seats tothe 50,000-seat sta­dium. Bagley says other details need to be resolved beforeboth par­ties sign off on the deal. The Star Tri­bune (http://bit.ly/xnotMv ) says the Vikings paid $ 1.7 mil­lionto...