FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Bob Stoops posed next to the crystal football and played along with a wave of photographers. (MORE)

BOSTON (AP) The man who fired Jeff Jagodzinski for interviewing with the New York Jets called Wednesday the hardest day in his 12 years as Boston College's athletic director. (MORE)

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) With Matthew Stafford and Knowshon Moreno headed to the NFL, Georgia probably won't have to worry about another preseason No. 1 ranking in 2009. (MORE)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Jacksonville Jaguars defensive assistant Tom Williams was introduced Wednesday as the head football coach at Yale, making him the first African-American to hold the job and only the second black coach in the Ivy League. (MORE)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida State pass rusher Everette Brown is leaving school a year early for the NFL draft. (MORE)

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State police are looking out for Joe Paterno's Coke bottle-thick glasses - the bronzed ones that were perched on the statue of the iconic football coach that stands outside Beaver Stadium. (MORE)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo was given a contract extension Wednesday, a reward for defeating Army and taking the Midshipmen to a bowl game in his first full season as coach at the academy. (MORE)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville's football coach says quarterback Matt Simms will transfer from the program. (MORE)

MIAMI (AP) Urban Meyer was about 8 years old when he knew he wanted to be a football coach. (MORE)

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) Maryland wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey will skip his senior season and enter the 2009 NFL draft. (MORE)