Reporters Notebooks
Neill Woelk, Boulder Daily Camera: Is it time for a new super league, free and clear of NCAA constraints? The new league would consist of eight conferences with eight teams and would lose current Bowl Championship Series members Duke, Iowa State, Kansas State, Cincinnati, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Connecticut and Washington State. Joining the group would be Utah, Texas Christian, Brigham Young, Boise State, East Carolina and Tulsa. Each team would play seven conference games and four nonconference games. Eight conference champs and eight runners-up advance to a 16-team playoff.
Berry Tramel, Oklahoman: College football has changed, and offensive line play isn’t as valuable as it once was.
Eric Crawford, Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky has taken billboard mania to new heights. Drive by selected billboards around the state, including one not far from Louisville campus, and tune to the right radio frequency, and you'll hear the Kentucky fight song blaring from your radio.
Michael Hiestand, USA Today: ESPN/ABC has announced its broadcasting lineups for the fall. Doug Flutie and Bonnie Bernstein are gone and Paul Maguire's role has been decreased. A look at the lineups.
Connor Ennis, New York Times: A look at ESPN's schedule of Thursday night games.
Gordon Monson, Salt Lake Tribune: What was the rush? The Mountain West should not have signed the BCS deal with ESPN.


