PROCEED WITH CAUTION: DERRICK CARACTER UPDATE
community.foxsports.com 9/6/2008 — CAUTION: Derrick Caracter update.   Honestly, I think Caracter and Herb Pope should start their own team. Now it appears as though Caracter, the former middle school star and Louisville reserve, is heading to Southern Mississippi.  ...

Upset Pitt looks for turnaround against Buffalo
sportingnews.com 9/6/2008 — PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Only one game into a season that couldn't have started much worse for Pitt, and a...

UW Football | After Oregon's spread option, now it's BYU's short game
seattletimes.nwsource.com 9/6/2008 — In the second game of his return to college football, Ed Donatell and the Huskies today face a Brigham Young offense predicated on a short-passing game and power running, an approach that couldn't be much more opposed to the spread-option offense ...

East Carolina controls West Virginia from start to finish
sports.espn.go.com 9/7/2008 — Skip Holtz followed his biggest coaching victory at East Carolina with an even more impressive one. Jonathan Williams had two short touchdown runs, quarterback Patrick Pinkney was nearly perfect and the Pirates routed No. 8 West Virginia 24-3 for their third straight win over a ranked team.

No. 4 Oklahoma 52, Cincinatti 26: For Oklahoma, Another Big Win and Another Good Omen
nytimes.com 9/7/2008 — The result was a far cry from last season, when the Sooners were upset at Colorado in their Big 12 opener. >

College Football | Look for ex-Huskies in Central Washington's lineup — The Seattle Times: Sports 9/6/2008
J.R. Hasty made big plays in the Wildcats' season opener, and he's joined on the roster by former Washington players Jared Bronson, Chris Rohrbach and Jordan Murchison.

Nuts! Squirrel dampens UW's Spirit for 2 games — The Seattle Times: Sports 9/6/2008
It will be a Dog-less Day Afternoon at Husky Stadium today as Washington announced Friday that its canine mascot, Spirit, has been placed on the disabled list after suffering a recent shoulder injury.

A Few College Football Final Thoughts... — Bleacher Report - College Football 9/6/2008
The Big Red faces off against the Spartans of San Jose State on Saturday. The Spartans boast a B-rated spread offense and a Dick-Tomey-coached aggressive defense. Here are a few nuggets of wisdom as you contemplate blowing the kids' lunch money on ...

ECU, tropical storm threaten to slow No. 8 WVU — The Seattle Times: Sports 9/6/2008
With West Virginia's speedy offense coming to town, Skip Holtz jokingly asked East Carolina's groundskeepers to leave the sprinklers on at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and turn the grass field into a mud pit.

No. 15 BYU holds on for 28-27 win over Washington — The Seattle Times: Sports 9/6/2008
Jan Jorgensen busted through the line and blocked Ryan Perkins' 35-yard extra-point attempt with 2 seconds left in regulation, and No. 15 BYU held on...