The sophomores were suspended indefinitely for their participation in a bar fight in Knoxville last month. Dooley dismissed Darren Myles Jr. in the incident.

Dooley said because the legal process has not been closed, he couldn't talk much about the situation.

In fact, not a single team has compiled a combined above-.500 record over the last three seasons, while the overall total stands at 35-48 (42%). West Virginia has been the biggest money-loser of the bunch with a 6-12 mark (33%).

On the bright side, the league has fared well in out-of-conference play with an 88-65-1 ATS record since the start of the '06 season. Last year, the eight teams went 22-14 ATS (61%), including a 12-8 mark against the other five Football Bowl Subdivision conferences. Surprisingly, Louisville has the top record in the league over the last two years at 6-2.

The Big Ten was among the many conferences that recently helped change the landscape of collegiate athletics, adding perennial power Nebraska to the fold back in June, the first new member since Penn State joined 20 years ago. The move comes into effect on July 1, 2011.

The addition has the conference sporting 12 teams, causing a change in scheduling and the inevitability of a long sought-after championship game, though a location for that contest has yet to be determined.

The Tennessean said that Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor David Williams II announced the move Monday at the Rotary Club of Nashville's meeting, where Caldwell was a guest speaker.

Caldwell was named interim head coach when Bobby Johnson abruptly announced his retirement July 14.

Masoli, who pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary in March and was eventually dismissed from the Oregon football team, enrolled in Mississippi's graduate program and will be a walk-on in the fall.

The two-year starting quarterback for the Ducks was previously suspended for the 2010 season after he and teammate Garrett Embry were accused of stealing two laptops and a guitar from a campus fraternity house in late January. After failing to adhere to head coach Chip Kelly's guidelines that were handed down after the incident, he was kicked off the team permanently.

There is one way to cash in on the MWC and that's through league play, but you have to pick your spots because favorites are only 57-50-1 (a 53% winning percentage) over the last three seasons. However, the divide between the upper- echelon clubs and the usual bottom-feeders is staggering.

Utah, TCU, BYU and Air Force are an amazing 46-28 (62%) when favored since '07, while the other five clubs are a combined 11-22-1 (34%) as the betting choice. Surprisingly, Air Force leads the way at 9-3 ATS while San Diego State has yet to post a victory at 0-2.

Here are the top linebackers in the FBS heading into the 2010 season.

INSIDE LBS: GREG JONES, MICHIGAN STATE While this Spartan looks a little small for a linebacker (6-1, 228), there is no denying that he plays much bigger and is regarded among the best in the country. Jones has earned All-American honors in each of his first three seasons at MSU, including being named a consensus first-team member in 2009. The 2009 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year finished third in the nation in tackles (154), with 13.5 TFLs and nine sacks. The ultimate defensive playmaker Jones heads into his senior season ranked eighth on the school's all-

Fenimore was the Cowboys' first All-American and was the number one pick in the 1947 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears.

He led the nation in total offense in 1944 while leading the-then Aggies to an 8-1 mark and a Cotton Bowl victory. He paced the nation in total offense again in 1945 while helping then-Oklahoma A&M to a perfect 9-0 mark, including a win in the Sugar Bowl.

At SEC Football Media Day earlier this month, Alabama head coach Nick Saban described unscrupulous sports agents as "pimps." While I'm sure there are some people out there, especially among the collegiate coaching ranks, that believe that comparison gives pimps a bad name, is Saban really serious? I mean, in watching his press conference it was hard not to think that Ashton Kutcher was going to walk out at some point and let us all know we were being punked.

Saban's comments may have been a knee-jerk reaction to the recent discovery that one of his top players, defensive end Marcel Dareus, is under investigation by the NCAA for attending a party in South Beach funded by an NFL agent. More absurd and transparent comm

Nelson served as the Pirates' defensive ends coach and special teams coordinator.

A statement issued by the school said Nelson and first-year head coach Ruffin McNeill agreed to Nelson's decision.

The announcement was made on Tuesday, as conference commissioner Larry Scott unveiled new branding for the Pac-10 beginning this upcoming season.

Scott confirmed that the Pac-10 will become the Pac-12 for the 2011-12 season, once both the University of Colorado and the University of Utah are welcomed to the fold.

Unfortunately for Conference USA, its poor records have not been a one-year trend. Back in '08, the league went 15-33 SU and 21-27 ATS in non-conference play and 2-23 SU and 9-16 ATS against BCS squads. In '07, the numbers were similar: 12-34 SU and 20-26 ATS, with 2-25 SU and 10-17 marks versus automatic qualifying clubs.

There is ample evidence that this meager run will continue, as the league moves forward without nine of its top 12 rushers from a season ago, as well as four of its top six receivers.

Kragthorpe joined the Texas A&M staff in February after head coaching stints at Tulsa (2003-06) and Louisville (2007-09), which fired him after a 4-8 season.

However, Kragthorpe will leave to give his attention to the unspecified issue.

Byrd suffered a heart attack last week while undergoing back surgery, and never regained consciousness.

Byrd, a defensive tackle, was the first two-time All-America selection in N.C. State football history, and the only Wolfpack defensive player to have his jersey (No. 77) retired.

This straight off the heels of a disastrous 13-22 mark in '08, a season in which the league finished 5-14 against the spread against Bowl Championship Series competition. This past year was the first since 2004 that the WAC ended a season above the .500 mark (8-7) versus BCS schools.

The question now becomes: Can the league continue its success, or will it falter with increased expectations? I fully expect the former to hold true, especially since only one team (Louisiana Tech) returns fewer starters than a season ago. In addition, the WAC is the only conference that returns every single starting quarterback.

The game will be played at Soldier Field in Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, and the schools also announced they will meet in a home-and-home series in 2016 and 2017.

"I am excited to announce that the University of Miami has renewed its historic football rivalry with the University of Notre Dame," University of Miami director of athletics Kirby Hocutt said. "Not only is it an outstanding opportunity for both programs, but it is great for the sport of college football." The rivalry, dubbed by many as "Catholics vs. Convicts" in the late 1980s, was highlighted by a fight between the teams in the tunnel of Notre Dame Stadium in 1988, a game the Fighting Irish won by a 31-30 score en route to their last national title.

According to TMZ, Green allegedly attended a party at the Fontainebleau Hotel over Memorial Day weekend. The 21-year-old star wideout has denied being there.

Attending the event is not in itself a violation of NCAA rules but if an agent or financial advisor paid for anything related to the trip, that could result in a breach of the rules.

The Nittany Lions and Midshipmen will play on September 15, 2012 at Beaver Stadium, in the resumption of a series which ended in 1974 after almost 80 years.

"We are excited to have Navy returning to the Penn State football schedule," said PSU director of athletics Tim Curley.

According to the Tuscaloosa News, it is standard for a player to be declared ineligible immediately after a question arises of whether or not a player violated NCAA rules.

Dareus has been connected with what is quickly becoming an infamous trip to Miami with several other college football players that may or may not have been sponsored by an agent.

Below are the top FBS defensive linemen heading into the 2010 season.

DEFENSIVE ENDS ADRIAN CLAYBORN, IOWA The top collegiate defensive end plays for the Hawkeyes. The 6-4, 285-pound Clayborn is an every-down dominant force up front. He showed flashes of potential in his first two seasons at Iowa but really burst on the scene as a junior in 2009, racking up 70 total tackles, with an outstanding 20 tackles for loss and 11.5 sacks, earning some All-American honors, as well as being tabbed an All-Big Ten First-Team honoree. The Hawkeyes aren't the team to beat in the Big Ten this season, but Clayborn should continue to exce

Parker, who helped Clemson's baseball team reach the final four of the 2010 College World Series, was selected by the Colorado Rockies with the 26th overall pick of this year's draft.

However, Parker said the only option he ruled out was playing baseball exclusively for the Rockies. He said negotiations will continue with the Rockies, but in the meantime he will play football for the Tigers.

A number of schools have had athletes' names surface in an increasingly sweeping investigation tied to possible rules violations, and apparently for attending the same party alleged to have been thrown by an agent in Miami.

The Tuscaloosa News is reporting Alabama junior defensive lineman Marcel Dareus is the latest name to be caught up in the mix.

It is true that the conference is fodder for BCS schools, but it also has fared poorly against its own kind, especially in bowl games. The MAC is just 1-12 straight up and 1-10-2 ATS in postseason play since '07, including 1-7 SU and 0-6-2 ATS versus teams from the WAC, Conference USA, Mountain West and the Sun Belt.

Within the league, favorites were 29-22-1, a massive turnaround from years past. Underdogs held the advantage by a 51-42-1 count in '07 and '08 combined.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Sheard was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault, criminal mischief, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He was arraigned and will have a preliminary hearing July 28.

Pittsburgh'sathleticdepartment releaseda statement confirming the suspension.

The Gainesville Sun is reporting that Pouncey, a junior center for Florida last year, received money from the representative of an agent between the SEC Championship Game and the Gators' Sugar Bowl matchup against Cincinnati on January 1. An ESPN report put the figure at $100,000.

The paper cited a released statement from athletic director Jeremy Foley that acknowledged the two sides were looking into the allegations.