Look At The Big Ten, Coming Up With Playoff Stuff

How about you, Big Ten!

Sources told the Tribune that a Big Ten plan would remove the top four teams from the BCS bowl pool and have semifinal games played on the college campus of the higher seed.

See? This isn't so hard! Say, that's actually a pretty good idea.

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 6, 2012 5:15 PM EST

Pac-12 Extends Larry Scott's Contract Further Into The Future

Larry Scott, man from the future, will be around for another four years of dragging sport into said future.

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 6, 2012 12:10 PM EST

More Thursday Night NFL Means More Competition For College Games

As long as the NFL keeps dialing up Jaguars-Falcons for its Thursday night games, college football doesn't have a whole lot to worry about as far as its new viewing competition goes. Early in the weekend, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the league will expand its Thursday Night Football offerings to include Weeks 2 through 15 -- in 2011, there were no pro Thursday nighters after Week 1 and before Week 11.

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 6, 2012 11:44 AM EST

Bill O'Brien's Teenage Ambition: Be The Opposite Of Vince Carter

From the Patriot-News, new Penn State coach (he's actually on the job now!) Bill O'Brien's high school yearbook profile:

Because Vince Carter could dunk until the age of 30, you see.

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 6, 2012 10:14 AM EST

The Most Georgia Tech Article Of The Week

Georgia Tech blog From the Rumble Seat crunches the numbers on the team's uniforms, and ... crunches the fashion numbers, you say? Manner of dress math? Indeed:

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 6, 2012 9:30 AM EST

Big 12 Schedule Has Florida State Talking West Virginia Lawsuit, Courting Oklahoma

A complicated one: the West Virginia Mountaineers are attempting to leave for the Big 12 immediately, instead of waiting until the Big East is ready to let them go. This has led to multiple legal torts and retorts and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, but the Big 12 is confident enough the 'Eers will break free that WVU is listed on the schedule the conference provided to TV partners (but not to the public yet).

But since the Big 12 is moving to a nine-game conference schedule, that means West Virginia has to drop a previously canceled 2012 out-of-conference game. This means no Florida State-West Virginia in Tallahassee, which means the 'Noles now need another game. (Which also means FSU fans are happy.)

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 5, 2012 10:52 AM EST

P.J. Fleck Not Ready To Be An Offensive Coordinator, Totally Ready For NFL Though

Former Rutgers Scarlet Knights wide receivers coach P.J. Fleck took the offensive coordinator job at Northern Illinois on Thursday. Fleck was a star receiver for NIU and previously served as an assistant coach there from 2007 to 2009. Our own Northern Illinois blog named him Huskie of the Decade. So it all sounded like the perfect fit and the beginning of beautiful, long-lasting relationship.

On Friday, he resigned.

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by Sean Keeley • Feb 4, 2012 7:59 PM EST

Maryland Fans Pulling Out All The Stops To Land Stefon Diggs

Despite being the hometown team, Maryland is considered a major longshot by most recruiting experts in its pursuit of electric receiver recruit Stefon Diggs.

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by Bud Elliott • Feb 4, 2012 2:51 PM EST

ACC Moving To Nine Conference Games Per Year

In addition to nine games, Syracuse joins the Atlantic (the one with Florida State), Pitt joins the Coastal (the one with Virginia Tech), and Pittsburgh touches absolutely no coastline whatsoever. Cuse and Pitt will of course become annual protected rivals.

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by Jason Kirk • Feb 3, 2012 2:25 PM EST