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Charlie Strong's decision to stay at Louisville is the second major coup for the Cardinals in eight days.
Seems like just yesterday Randy Edsall, Maryland's imperious football coach, was imposing his will on Danny O'Brien and two other players to keep them from transferring to Vanderbilt, where former Terps assistant James Franklin has been gaining traction.
Atlantic Coast Conference leaders got the school they wanted. Louisville was relieved to find a home amid the latest wave of realignment.
The Atlantic Coast Conference sued the University of Maryland in a Greensboro, N.C., court Monday to compel the university to pay the conference's exit fee of more than $50 million, according to the complaint obtained by The Washington Times.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has agreed to a 12-year deal with ESPN for the rights to televise the Orange Bowl, with the conference champion facing either Notre Dame or a team from the Big Ten or SEC.
Pittsburgh running back Ray Graham ran for 94 yards and two scores and added an 18-yard touchdown reception to lead the Panthers to a 35-17 upset of No. 13 Virginia Tech on Saturday.
Notre Dame is coming to the Atlantic Coast Conference -- and they're bringing two of the Four Horsemen with them.
Notre Dame is leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference in all sports but football.
In his first year as athletic director at Notre Dame four years ago, Jack Swarbrick visited Chapel Hill, N.C., for the first time. Walking through the University of North Carolina campus before a Tar Heels football game against the Fighting Irish, Swarbrick vividly remembers the satisfaction he felt in being warmly welcomed.
Summers aren't quiet anymore for the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Almost inevitably, the subject of Notre Dame — effectively assumed to be a possible linchpin of any further college athletics realignment beyond the instability of the past two years — arose at ACC commissioner John Swofford's forum with reporters Sunday.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is remaining tied to the Orange Bowl.
The conference commissioners who have been working on a four-team playoff to determine college football's national champion plan to present the BCS presidential oversight committee multiple formats from which to choose.
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive came here four years ago with a plan to remake the Bowl Championship Series by creating two national semifinals to determine which teams played for the national championship.
College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four.
ACC commissioner John Swofford said that a "changing landscape" in college athletics demands flexibility.
Swofford said the timetable for when the switch becomes official depends on Notre Dame's commitment to the Big East.
