(AP) -- Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford said Wednesday that the possibility of Florida State leaving the league was not brought up "in any formal way" during this week's meetings.

In a phone interview from Amelia Island, Fla. - where the meetings were held - Swofford touched on a wide range of topics. He said ACC schools prefer a postseason plan for football that would incorporate the bowls for at least the semifinal stage of a four-team playoff with conference champions meeting "a certain standard within the rankings."

But much of the outside attention lately has focused on Florida State and the rumblings that the Seminoles possibly could leave the ACC for the Big 12.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been determined.

The former Penn State assistant football coach's trial is scheduled to get under way in less than three weeks, although the judge has not ruled on a separate motion from Sandusky asking for a delay. Read More...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Prosecutors charged Notre Dame linebacker Carlo Calabrese with a misdemeanor count of intimidation Wednesday for allegedly making threatening remarks to a police officer after quarterback Tommy Rees was arrested near an off-campus party.

The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office announced its decision less than two weeks after police recommended on May 3 that he be charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Read More...

CHICAGO (AP) How about a national championship game in Detroit? Or Minneapolis? What about Boston or New York?

With college football headed toward a playoff, Big Ten administrators this week came out in favor of staging those games in bowls, a step that would keep the conference's longstanding ties to the Rose Bowl. Read More...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A new coach is relying a lot on team leaders to drive the ballyhooed "Urban Renewal" project at Ohio State.

Urban Meyer, hired last November to oversee a massive reconstruction of the Buckeyes' troubled program, revealed his two-deep roster on Wednesday but said if the squad's best and brightest don't take ownership then his reboot won't work. Read More...

NEW YORK (AP) Jimmy Johnson was asked if he ever considered getting back into college coaching and responded by taking out his phone and scrolling through his pictures.

"There's where I live on the ocean," he said. "What I spend my time doing is ..." Read More...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Disappointed Nebraska fans who thought quarterback greats Tommie Frazier and Eric Crouch would make the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday might have had unrealistic expectations.

So says Crouch, the 2001 Heisman Trophy winner who was on the ballot for the first time. Read More...

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) Clemson freshman running back Mike Bellamy was ruled academically ineligible and won't return to school next fall.

Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday that Bellamy plans to enter a junior college this summer. Bellamy was a Parade All-American and considered consensus a five-star prospect in the mold of former Clemson star C.J. Spiller. Yet Bellamy never found his place on the field and got in trouble off it when he was sent back to campus by Swinney on the day of the Tigers' ACC title game against Virginia Tech. Read More...

LOS ANGELES (AP) A 22-year-old University of Idaho football player was fatally shot at a weekend party in Los Angeles, authorities said.

Detectives were trying to determine a motive and a suspect in the early Sunday death of Ken McRoyal of Carson, who was killed while attending a photo shoot to promote a new woman's clothing line, police said. A second man was wounded and treated at a hospital. Read More...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Mention the Western Athletic Conference to Hall of Fame coach LaVell Edwards, and he thinks back to Brigham Young's 1984 national championship with a junior quarterback named Robbie Bosco and a team that wasn't even ranked when the season started.

It's a high point that seems like ancient history now. Read More...