ACC action starts at full speed on Labor Day,
as the 16th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies welcome the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
to Blacksburg for a Coastal Division showdown at Lane Stadium.

Bucknell football will open the 2011 season
with two home games and then play three more at at Christy Mathewson-Memorial
Stadium in head coach Joe Susan's second second.

Tropical Storm Isaac is sure to impact the sports calendar
later this week, but there are no announced changes for the FCS schedule that
kicks off Thursday night.

On Wednesday yet another step was taken
towards installing a playoff system in Football Bowl Subdivision, as the BCS
commissioners announced they reached a consensus on a possible playoff
structure to be put into place as early as 2014.

Bobby Petrino is coming back to
Louisville.

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Tennessee State University is mourning the
death of a football player who died Wednesday after collapsing during a team
practice.

A Top 25 showdown in the SEC is on tap
in Baton Rouge, as the 17th-ranked Florida Gators take on the 10th-ranked LSU
Tigers in a cross-divisional affair.

South Dakota State football will open the
2012 season at the University of Kansas and rekindle a century-old rivalry
with South Dakota in an 11-game schedule announced Wednesday.

New Florida Gators head coach Will
Muschamp began molding his coaching staff for the upcoming season.

LSU has started a one-year probationary
period after the NCAA accepted the school's self-imposed sanctions on its
football program.

Harvard quarterback Colton Chapple and
Princeton defensive end Mike Catapano were named the Asa S. Bushnell Cup
winners on Monday as the Ivy League football players of the year.

Offensive lineman Fernando Diaz, a transfer
from the University of Pittsburgh, has accepted a grant-in-aid offer to play
football for Stony Brook.

Johnathan Franklin became UCLA's career
rushing leader Saturday night, as the 25th-ranked Bruins cruised past the
24th-ranked Arizona Wildcats, 66-10.