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Big Ten Explores National 4-Team Playoff

The Big Ten, which helped squash the notion of a four-team play­off to crown a national cham­pion in col­lege foot­ball sev­eral years ago, is tak­ing another look. BCS Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Bill Han­cock said Tues­day night that’s good news. “Our process is work­ing per­fectly,” Han­cock said. “One of good things about our process is that there’s no timetable so that a delib­er­ate and thought­ful deci­sion can be reached. “The tricky part is our 11 con­fer­ence com­mis­sion­ers and the Notre Dame AD may have 12 dif­fer­ent opin­ions about the direc­tion... 

Big East to Add Memphis in All Sports

Mem­phis is the lat­est school to sign up for a spot in the new Big East. A per­son famil­iar with the deci­sion says Mem­phis is join­ing the Big East. The per­son spoke to The Asso­ci­ated Press on con­di­tion of anonymity because an offi­cial announce­ment was pending. Mem­phis Ath­letic direc­tor R.C. John­son said the school is hold­ing a con­fer­ence call fol­lowed by a news con­fer­ence Wednes­day to dis­cuss the university’s ath­letic affiliation. The Tigers will join the league for the 2013–14 sea­son and com­pete in all sports, becom­ing the fourth Con­fer­ence... 

Wash. St. LB Mizell Charged in Fight

PULLMAN, Wash. — Wash­ing­ton State line­backer C.J. Mizell has been arrested in a week­end fight at a fra­ter­nity house party. Pull­man police say Mizell was arrested Sun­day on mis­de­meanor charges of assault and tres­pass­ing. He was taken to jail but released on his own recognizance. Police say Mizell tried to enter a party at the Delta Tau Delta fra­ter­nity house on Sat­ur­day night. When he was denied entry, police say Mizell punched one of the mem­bers and fled. A native of Tal­la­has­see, Fla., Mizell started nine games at line­backer last season. Wash­ing­ton... 

Stanford LB Skov Arrested for DUI

STANFORD, Calif. — In a rar­ity for a pres­ti­gious aca­d­e­mics uni­ver­sity that prides itself on a higher stan­dard, Stan­ford had a player get into trou­ble with the law. Star line­backer Shayne Skov was arrested and jailed last week­end for dri­ving under the influence. A Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safety spokesman said Skov was arrested for dri­ving under the influ­ence Sun­day at about 2 a.m. The inci­dent, first reported by The Stan­ford Daily stu­dent news­pa­per Mon­day night, occurred on campus. Skov was pulled over in the park­ing lot... 

Nevada Promotes Bradeson to Run Defense

RENO, Nev. — Nevada pro­moted safeties coach Mike Brade­son to defen­sive coor­di­na­tor and announced run­ning backs Casey Moore will not return to the program. Coach Chris Ault said Mon­day that he plans to hire three new offen­sive coaches, includ­ing a coor­di­na­tor who will also be quar­ter­backs coach to help expand the Wolf Pack’s pis­tol offense. Ault says he’s also in the mar­ket for an offen­sive line coach and a replace­ment for Moore, who had been with the pro­gram for two seasons. Brade­son has been on Nevada’s staff for two sea­sons. He served a five-year... 

Louisville Picks Watson to Run Offense

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville coach Char­lie Strong says he’s ele­vated Shawn Wat­son to offen­sive coor­di­na­tor and hired Sher­rone Moore to coach tight ends. Strong also announced Mon­day that offen­sive line coach Dave Bor­berly will be the run­ning game coordinator. Wat­son served as quar­ter­backs coach last sea­son and took over play-calling duties four games into the sea­son. He’s replac­ing Mike San­ford, who left the staff six games into the season. Before join­ing Louisville, Wat­son was the offen­sive coor­di­na­tor at Nebraska for four years. Moore... 

Fleck Left NIU After One Day for Job With NFL Bucs

Fleck left NIU after one day for job with NFL Bucs Posted by John Tay­lor on Feb­ru­ary 5, 2012, 11:44 AM EST As Ben touched upon Sat­ur­day morn­ing, North­ern Illi­nois announced Fri­day night that P.J. Fleck had left the pro­gram one day after being named the Huskies’ offen­sive coordinator. The offi­cial rea­son from the school behind Fleck’s depar­ture was, as head coach Dave Doeren put it, “he does not feel he’s ready to be an offen­sive coor­di­na­tor.” Appar­ently, though, he feels like he’s ready to be an NFL assistant. Cit­ing a source close to the... 

3 Georgia Freshmen Dismissed From Team

ATHENS, Ga. — Three fresh­men Geor­gia foot­ball play­ers this sea­son have been dis­missed from the team by coach Mark Richt for undis­closed violations. The three are cor­ner­back Nick Mar­shall, defen­sive back Chris Sanders and receiver San­ford Seay, Richt would not dis­close what team rules were bro­ken, say­ing only that “mis­takes were made and part of our job is help­ing them learn from mis­takes.” He says he will assist the three in trans­fer­ring to other schools. Sanders had two tack­les in three games. Mar­shall had five tack­les in 13 games, mostly on... 

Ga. Tech Unsure of Violations’ Impact

ATLANTA — Geor­gia Tech offi­cials are con­sid­er­ing the impli­ca­tions of this week’s dis­clo­sure that the school broke NCAA recruit­ing rules. Co-offensive line coach Todd Spencer resigned under pres­sure after the school dis­cov­ered his imper­mis­si­ble texts to recruits. Spencer’s res­ig­na­tion and the rules vio­la­tions were announced on Wednesday’s open­ing of the national sign­ing period for high school players. The dis­clo­sure of the vio­la­tions came seven months after the NCAA placed Geor­gia Tech on four years pro­ba­tion and stripped the school... 

ACC Heading to 9-Game League Schedule

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Atlantic Coast Con­fer­ence will play anine-game sched­ule in foot­ball and every team will com­pete in the ACC bas­ket­balltour­na­ments once Syra­cuse and Pitts­burgh join the league. The league announced Fri­day how it will incor­po­rate the schools once theyleave the Big East Con­fer­ence. ACC com­mis­sioner John Swof­ford said Fri­day it’sstill unclear when that will hap­pen since Big East bylaws require a 27-monthnotice for a school to leave. “This just puts us in posi­tion of being fur­ther ready to accept themcom­pet­i­tively...