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• All-America Team: ESPN.com's 2009 All-America Team

  Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart, the top two finishers in the Heisman race, lead ESPN.com's All-America team.

• BCS Championship: Mack Brown's personal liberation paved way to professional vindication

  Mack Brown finally won big when he quit wanting it so badly. The Texas coach realized there was more to life than simply trying to pile up accomplishments so high that even a deceased man could see them.
  
  

• Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic director: Conference expansions could end our football independence

  Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence.

• Texas A&M-Commerce football coach apologizes for supporting players' removal of student newspapers

  A Texas college football coach has apologized for applauding his players for removing campus newspapers from their racks because of a story about the program.

• Texas Longhorns, Maryland Terrapins get reprieve on recruiting rule

  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.

• Utah Utes quarterback recruit Tyler Shreve says scholarship OK despite expulsion

  A high school quarterback in Southern California said he still has a full scholarship offer from Utah despite being expelled after an altercation with his baseball coach.