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    • (Jerry Lai/US Presswire)

      From the beginning, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has supported a playoff, but he's also been in favor of doing things his way.

      Remember, Delany is the same guy who supported the ill-conceived Rose Bowl plan, which preserved the Pac-12-Big Ten Rose Bowl tradition, but forced other teams to actually have to fight their way into a playoff. Shockingly, no one else supported that idea.

      It's a given that college football is going to a four-team playoff system, but how those four teams are chosen is still up for debate. Well, Delany has an answer. According to what is being called the "Delany Plan," the top four conference champions should go, but only if they're ranked in the top six of the national rankings.

      On the surface it seems simple enough: If four conference champions are ranked in the top six you take the top four conference champions. When fewer than four conference champions are ranked in the top six the next highest ranked team would get into the playoff.

      Done and done.

      However, sometimes the conference champion isn't always the better team. In 2011, the playoff would have been (according to the BCS standings) No. 1 LSU vs. No. 5 Oregon and No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Oklahoma State. Looks great unless you're No. 4 Stanford, which didn't win its conference, but was the higher ranked team.

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    • Being a football player means you're usually competitive in everything, including eating.

      So when two unsuspecting young men decided to take on Bowling Green junior defensive tackle Ted Ouellet and senior right tackle Jordon Roussos in a Qudoba burrito eating contest, well, they should have known better.

      Spoiler alert: This — especially Roussos portion of this contest — is a sight to behold.

      By watching the video, the rules are as follows: One person (in this case Ouellet) must finish the entire Qudoba burrito, including all the beans and mess left on the foil, before the next person (Roussos) can begin. Once the second person finishes their burrito and nothing is left in their mouth, they are done.

      Ouellet and Roussos appeared to finish this feat in less than 2 minutes.

      The two poor guys trying to match Ouellet and Roussos eventually give up. At one point, the guy sitting next to Roussos, who is in the blue shirt with clouds, just looks at him shoveling the burrito into his pie hole

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    • (Joe Raymond/AP)

      Notre Dame quarterback Tommy Rees is currently sitting in jail after being arrested on a preliminary felony charge following a confrontation with police during a house party early Thursday morning.

      Rees, 19, was arrested for resisting police, felony battery to law enforcement, minor consumption and public intoxication. Rees remains in jail while he awaits charges to be filed against him. According to the Chicago Tribune, Rees could be arraigned this afternoon or might have to spend another night in custody. The police have 48 hours to charge Rees.

      South Bend Police Capt. Phil Trent told the paper Rees lifted a knee to an officer during the arrest and had to be pepper sprayed while on the ground.

      "It wasn't terribly violent, but it was enough to be considered resisting," Trent said.

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    • (Kirby Lee/US Presswire)

      Six months ago, Central Florida quarterback Jeffrey Godfrey left the Knights on bad terms. On Wednesday, coach George O'Leary announced Godfrey was returning to the program - as a wide receiver.

      Godfrey's two seasons at Central Florida were nothing short of dramatic. In 2010, he led the Knights to an 11-3 record, the best in school history, and was named Conference USA's Freshman of the Year and a Freshman All-American.

      But the following August, Godfrey was implicated in a Yahoo! Sports report detailing dealings with Miami booster Nevin Shapiro. Shapiro claimed he provided Godfrey with extra benefits, including shoes, meals and a spot in Shapiro's luxury box at a Miami Hurricanes game in 2009.

      O'Leary said he spoke to Godfrey about the allegations and O'Leary claimed he was "comfortable with the answers he gave me" and left it at that. But as the season progressed, it seemed as though the relationship between Godfrey and O'Leary was strained.

      Godfrey slipped into a sophomore slump, UCF went 5-7 and Godfrey's father, Jeff Godfrey Sr., openly questioned the playcalling and the way UCF was using his son. Godfrey was asked to stay in the pocket instead of using his feet to make plays. Even though Godfrey started all 12 games for the Knights, he was replaced at times by pro-style freshman Blake Bortles, who helped the team to wins.

      That was the beginning of the end of Godfrey's time with the Knights.

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    • (Michael Ivins/US Presswire)

      Boston College football could slowly be slipping down the rabbit hole.

      After Tuesday's news that the Eagles had parted ways with running back Montel Harris, the leading rusher in school history, it's hard to be optimistic about the immediate future of this team.

      The details surrounding Harris' dismissal are sketchy. Boston College said he was dismissed because of repeated team rule violations and Harris declined to talk about it per the school's request. In any case, Harris was the one national name on the Boston College roster and he carried the hope that last year's 4-8 record could be in the rearview.

      Harris played in just two games last season because of a knee injury and his 3,735 career yards were sorely missed. Boston College's offense as a whole struggled last year. It was last in the ACC in total offense and scoring offense with a little more than 18 points per game.

      And if the Eagles had improved in the spring, no one was around to see it. Just 200 people showed up for the spring game — the lowest attendance figure in the country. Fan interest in the program is probably as low as it's been since the team struggled in the late 90s (or maybe since the team went winless in 1978) and after this latest move, there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight.

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    • Like many college football players, former Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand always wanted to get his shot with the NFL.

      On Wednesday, LeGrand, who was paralyzed during a game in 2010 and remains in a wheelchair, was given that chance.

      Tampa Bay Bucs coach Greg Schiano, who also coached LeGrand during his fateful accident, signed LeGrand to an undrafted free agent contract.

      "Leading up to the draft, I couldn't help but think that this should've been Eric's draft class. This small gesture is the least we could do to recognize his character, spirit, and perseverance. The way Eric lives his life epitomizes what we are looking for in Buccaneer Men."

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    • Few good deeds go unnoticed here at Dr. Saturday and today Missouri receiver T.J. Moe and quarterback Corbin Berkstresser are getting their well-deserved dues.

      Last Saturday, the two Tigers accompanied Linda Watson to her senior prom at Fayette High School.

      Watson, who suffers from cerebral palsy, loves Missouri football, so her teacher, Bridget Hussey, asked a friend in the Missouri football program if Watson's two favorite players — Moe and Berkstresser — would be interested in making Watson's prom special.

      Both immediately agreed to be her dates.

      "She loves those two guys and she's going to love them even more tonight," Watson's father, Dave, said.

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    • The Western Athletic Conference is sadly and slowly circling the drain.

      After once being a conference full of some of the more formidable teams in college football, universities are hightailing it out in search of the greener pastures of the Mountain West, Conference USA and Sun Belt.

      It's sad, too, because the WAC is celebrating 50 years of greatness and even put together a tribute video to commemorate the occasion. Only one problem, the conference incorrectly spelled the last name of one of the greatest football coaches to grace the WAC name.

      Boise State's Chris "Peterson" is championed in the video as one of the conference's great coaches. Too bad it was Chris "Petersen," who helped lead Boise State to all those wonderful seasons and BCS bowl games that helped put the conference on the map in the past seven seasons or so.

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    • Arizona State coach Todd Graham admits leaving Tulsa for Pitt two years was a mistake.

      Graham, who was named the head coach at Arizona State in December, spent one season at Pitt after four at Tulsa. He was criticized heavily for leaving the Panthers after one season and essentially breaking up with his players via text message.

      However, Graham told Lisa Horne of Fox Sports that he should have never left Tulsa for Pitt in the first place. As a Texas native who has spent most of his life in Texas and Oklahoma, Graham said he didn't adjust well to the cultural change of being on the East Coast.

      "I got my head kicked in to come here," the 47-year-old Mesquite, Texas-native admitted.

      There were no excuses offered up over why he bailed on Pitt — he was completely transparent and honest discussing what he called his "biggest mistake."

      "In every job that [I've previously had] … I've changed jobs, and you know, you get a lot of grief, and rightly so. I take responsibility for being at a place for one year and leaving," he said. "I made a mistake. The mistake was I probably should have never gone to Pittsburgh in the first place."

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    • More than 44,000 fans enjoyed Oregon's spring game Saturday — a record crowd for the Ducks and more than the combined spring game attendance of USC, Cal, Stanford, Washington and Arizona — but for several military personnel, the game was extra special.

      At the conclusion of the spring game, several members of the United States Armed Forces lined one of the sidelines of Autzen Stadium while players lined the other. The two parties met at midfield where the Ducks remove their commemorative jerseys from their pads and put the jersey back on before meeting the servicemen and women out on the field. Then they take the jerseys off and trade them for a coin given by the military member. The players later autograph the jerseys and then show the members of the military around their awesome locker room and facility.

      [Dan Wetzel: Four issues to fix ahead of a college football playoff]

      This is the third year Oregon has done this tribute — the brainchild of coach Chip Kelly — and the entire spring game is dedicated to the military.

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