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Conference conundrum: Football driving force behind Pac-10 talk (Boulder Daily Camera)

Two of college football`s greatest traditions could come together if the Pac-10 Conference chooses to expand and invites the Colorado Buffaloes. Imagine Colorado`s live buffalo mascot, Ralphie V, storming down the sidelines in the Rose Bowl covered with a blanket of roses like a Kentucky Derby winner and a sign reading “Beat Ohio State” one New Year`s Day in the future.

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Missouri Tigers football team hopes to rebound like 2007 team (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

October 8, 2009 – Quarterback Blaine Gabbert of the Missouri Tigers passes during the game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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Salaries spike for college football assistants, successful coaches (USA Today)

The trend of rapidly accelerating pay for major-college head football coaches is being replicated and then some for their top assistants. With many contracts being negotiated or finalized, nearly a dozen schools in the NCAA’s 120-school Football Bowl Subdivision have made deals under which they will be spending at least 38% more on their offensive or defensive coordinator in 2010 than they did …

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Salaries spike for college football assistants (USA Today)

The trend of rapidly accelerating pay for major-college head football coaches is being replicated and then some for their top assistants.

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College Football Notes: NCAA gives Texas a reprieve on recruiting rule (Omaha World-Herald)

The NCAA has given Texas and Maryland a one-year reprieve from a new rule that limits off-campus football recruiting by a coach designated as the head coach-in-waiting. That will allow Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp…

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College Football Capsules: Swarbrick: Expansion could force ND into move (The Brownsville Herald)

“Our preference is clear,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said Tuesday. “I believe we’re at a point right now where changes could be relatively small or they could be seismic.”

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George Schroeder: Five burning Pac-10 questions heading into spring football (Sports Illustrated)

For most of the last decade, Pac-10 spring previews — or postseason reviews, or any assessment, at any time — could be summed up thusly: Who can possibly challenge USC? (Or maybe: Which guy will become the Trojans’ next superstar?)

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CFT: Pinstripe Bowl set for Yankee Stadium (MSNBC)

If you are one of those college football fans who embrace the-more-the-merrier tack when it comes to bowl games, this post is right up your alley.

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OU coach sees Bradford as a franchise QB (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Greetings. I had the chance to talk to Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops about his two top NFL prospects, quarterback Sam Bradford and defensive tackle Gerald McCoy . Bradford and McCoy — along with Nebraska DT Ndamukong Suh and Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen — are being closely inspected by the Rams, who have the No. 1 overall pick in the April 22 NFL draft.

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Yet another football bowl game: Yankee Stadium will host the Pinstripe Bowl (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The pinstripe uniforms worn by the New York Yankees might be sports’ most famous apparel. The new football bowl game will include the No. 3 team in the Big East and the No. 6 school in the Big 12, excluding Bowl Championship Series participants.

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