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College Football: News and Notes on New Year's Eve

 
Michigan opens the Big Ten Basketball season today at 2:00. DeShawn Simms who turned an ankle against North Carolina Central, should be ok to play. The game will be on ESPN 2. Official Recruiting Visitors for Jan. 9 include: LB Barkevious Mingo, DE Sam Montgomery, QB Denard Robinson, WR (current commit) Cameron Gordon, OL (current commit) Michael Schofield, DE Bennie Logan , and CB Demontre Hurst. Western Michigan's Bill Cubit agreed to a new five-year contract before kick off of last night's Texas Bowl. Good timing, WMU got blown out by Rice 38-14. Blown out is maybe the wrong term, I guess they got "Boiled" by Rice. UCLA defensive coordinator DeWayne Walker has been hired as New Mexico State's head coach. Congratulations DeWayne and long overdue! Do you think Michigan has the best facilities for education and athletics? Well, the NYT says U of M has a construction campaign budgeted at $2.5 billion, ranking it among the largest university building programs in the United ... (link)

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