When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to basketball.

Also under review will be the possibility of going to a nine-game league format in football. Under the current system, ACC teams play eight conference games. Each school in the two six-team divisions — Atlantic and Coastal — play the other five division members plus three from the opposite division.

Should a nine-game format be adopted, each team would play four games against teams from the opposite division.

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Notre Dame and Arizona State have signed a 1 year deal to play on Oct. 5, 2013, at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Notre Dame football will begin the series of off-site games in 2009 (vs. Washington State in San Antonio) and play one game per season at locations in Texas, Florida, and in other cities.

The dust has barely settled on the 2008 spring schedule, but the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjack football team is already making plans for the 2009 season. The 'Jacks will kickoff the '09 docket Sept. 5, against SMU in Dallas, Texas, at Gerald Ford Stadium. SFA will also make a return trip to Dallas to face the Mustangs in 2012.

The NCAA has approved applications for 34 football bowl games for 2008, including 32 existing bowls and two new games in Washington, D.C., and St. Petersburg, Fla. The NCAA Postseason Football Licensing Subcommittee on Wednesday also turned down a request for a proposed Rocky Mountain Bowl in Salt Lake City.

The new bowl games for next season will be the Congressional Bowl in the nation's capital and the St. Petersburg Bowl.

Also announced was the #6 SEC Team will face a Big Team in the Papa Johns.com Bowl in Birmingham

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The ACC has signed an agreement to place one team in the inaugural Congressional Bowl, to be played December 20th in Washington, DC.

The game will be televised by ESPN. The New bowl will be played on December 20th at either RFK Stadium or Nationals Park.

The Congressional Bowl will offer a guaranteed $1 million per school in the first year. The organizers hope to pair a service academy annually against an ACC or at-large opponent.

Clemson and Coastal have agreed to play in Clemson on Oct. 31, 2009, meaning Chanticleers will play two Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly I-A) teams that season. Coastal will open the year at Kent State.

Clemson and Coastal have already signed a contract to play in 2014, but Clemson needed an extra game in 2009, so the schools agreed to play on Halloween that season.

Coastal will be paid more than $300,000 for the trip. The school is playing its first Football Bowl Subdivision opponent in 2008, when it travels to State College, Pa., for a season-opening matchup with Penn State. The school received $450,000 to play the Nittany Lions.

Navy and Ohio State have agreed to play in football in 2009 and 2014. The Mids will open up the 2009 season on Sept. 5 in Columbus, while the Buckeyes will play Navy on Aug. 30, 2014, at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium or at a neutral site in the Annapolis area

The 2009 season opener will mark the first time Navy has played a school from the Big 10 since September 21, 2002, when the Mids took on Northwestern. Navy is 23-31-2 all-time against schools currently in the Big 10.

University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman announced on Wednesday that the University of Toledo and Wyoming have agreed to a two-game series in football. The series will begin on Oct. 2, 2010, when Wyoming will travel to Toledo, Ohio, to take on the Rockets. On Sept. 8, 2012, Toledo will travel to Laramie, Wyo. Toledo is a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) West Division. Wyoming and Toledo have never met before in football.

University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman and University of Texas Athletics Director DeLoss Dodds announced on Friday that the Wyoming Cowboys and Texas Longhorns have agreed in principle to a three-game football series beginning in 2009. The series will begin with Wyoming hosting Texas in Laramie on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

"We are extremely excited to bring one of the premier football programs in the country to our fans," said Burman. "Texas possesses as rich a tradition in college football as any team in the country. They have captured four National Championships including their most recent BCS Championship in 2005. We believe this game will be the biggest game in the history of War Memorial Stadium.

"We do not as yet have an executed contract in place, but we have come to terms on all the major points of the agreement and both DeLoss Dodds and I were comfortable enough with the terms to make the announcement at this time."

After opening the three-game series in Laramie in `09, Wyoming will travel to Austin, Texas, twice for road games on Sept. 11, 2010, and Sept. 1, 2012. The terms of the contract include an exchange of guarantees of $250,000 each for the 2009 and 2010 meetings, with Texas paying Wyoming $900,000 in 2012.

Rutgers and Fresno State have reached an agreement on a home-and-home series beginning in 2008 at Rutgers Stadium. The two teams will play on Labor Day Monday, Sept. 1 at 4:30 pm ET with live national television coverage on ESPN.

"This is an exciting series for our fans as we face one of the top programs from the West Coast in Fresno State," said Rutgers Director of Athletics Robert E. Mulcahy. "We are anxious to open the 2008 season on ESPN in front of a national television audience on Labor Day."

The Scarlet Knights will make the return trip to Fresno Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Rutgers will play an opponent from the Football Championship Subdivision on Saturday, Sept. 27 at home. The previously scheduled game vs. Howard on August 30 will not be played.

Southern Miss Director of Athletics Richard Giannini announced today a three-game football series with Nebraska that will take place in 2012, 2013 and 2015.

The contract calls for the Golden Eagles to travel to Nebraska for the 2012 and 2015 seasons and the Cornhuskers to travel to Hattiesburg in 2013. The scheduled dates of the game are Sept. 1, 2012, Sept. 9, 2013, and Sept. 5, 2015.

Southern Miss will face Virginia in a home-and-home series which is slated for the 2009 and 2011 seasons. The Cavaliers will travel to Hattiesburg on Sept. 19, 2009, while Southern Miss is making a visit to Charlottesville, Va., on Sept. 24, 2011. UVa finished 9-4 last season which included a 31-28 loss to Texas Tech in the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl.

The Golden Eagles will entertain in-state foe Alcorn State for a home game on Sept. 12, 2009, while playing host to Southeastern Louisiana, Sept. 4, 2010.

Vanderbilt and Middle Tennessee have reached agreement on a four-game home and away football series starting in 2015.

The Commodores and Blue Raiders will rekindle the rivalry at Floyd Stadium on the MTSU campus, Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor for University Affairs and Athletics David Williams II said today. The series includes games played in Vanderbilt Stadium in 2016 and 2018, with a second trip to Murfreesboro in 2017.

The series will feature early-season games between the Commodores and Blue Raiders. The teams are scheduled to play Sept. 5, 2015 at Middle Tennessee; Sept. 10, 2016 in Vanderbilt Stadium, Sept. 2, 2017 in Murfreesboro, and Sept. 1, 2018 on campus in Nashville.

Eleven of the first 12 games played between the universities were contested on the Commodore campus. The teams have met only once previously in Murfreesboro, with Vanderbilt winning 34-0 in 1920

Ohio State has filled its last nonconference opening that in 2012, by agreeing to host UAB on Oct. 6. This would be OSU’s first-ever game against UAB. Neil Callaway, a former Georgia assistant, was 2-10 in his first year as the Blazers’ head coach this past year.

Arkansas and Texas A&M have agreed to a 10 year series. beginning in 2009. All the games in the series will be played at the New Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Arkansas will serve as the home team in the neutral site series in 2009 and the corresponding odd years while Texas A&M will be the home team in 2010 and the corresponding even years. there is also an option in the contract for five more four-year terms at the end of 2018.

Kansas football has agreed to a home and home series with Southern Mississippi beginning in 2009, it was announced on Tuesday. The Jayhawks will host USM in Lawrence on September 26, 2009 and will travel to Hattiesburg on September 18, 2010.

Note: Kansas has also added a game vs New Mexico State for 2010. KU will host NMSU on Sept. 25, 2010

Western Michigan defensive coordinator Bill Miller has accepted a job as linebackers coach at Louisville.

The Cardinals announced his hiring Tuesday on their Web site.

He replaces Ted Roof, the former Duke head coach who left Louisville after a month to become Minnesota's defensive coordinator.

Just three days after Everett Withers officially left his position as defensive coordinator at Minnesota to take the same job at North Carolina, it appears the Gophers have found his replacement.

Ted Roof, former head coach at Duke from 2003-07, has accepted the defensive coordinator position for the Gophers, according to the Star Tribune and sources at the University of Louisville.

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The Minnesota football team announced Monday that another staff member will be leaving the program - defensive coordinator Everett Withers.

The highest-paid assistant coach in Gophers history, Withers will forego the final two years of his Minnesota contract, worth almost $1 million, and take a similar position with North Carolina.

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Birmingham-Southern College's Joey Jones will return to his hometown to become the University of South Alabama's first head football coach, The Birmingham News has learned.

Jones, 45, accepted the offer from USA on Thursday after meeting with Athletics Director Joe Gottfried for the third time on Wednesday. The university will introduce him on Friday at a mid-day press conference.

According to the Mobile Press-Register, the salary for the coach USA will hire to build a program from the ground up will be $275,000. Jones' total compensation package at BSC, where he was the school's first football coach since 1939, was approximately $150,000.