(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...

CHICAGO (AP) Big Ten administrators could see a national championship game being played in cities that aren't necessarily traditional hosts.

Big Ten officials came out this week in favor of having bowl games host an expected four-team playoff, preferring to keep the Rose Bowl as its postseason tradition. Yet they also said they can envision the title game played elsewhere. 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...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) Arkansas coach John L. Smith says wide receiver Kane Whitehurst has been released from his scholarship.

Whitehurst redshirted last season and was listed as a third-team wide receiver on the depth chart prior to spring practice. The 6-foot, 175-pound freshman is the second Razorbacks receiver to be released this month, following Quinta Funderburk's release on May 2. Read More...

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) Bill O'Brien has quickly put to rest any notion that he plans to stick around as long as the last Penn State football coach.

Don't expect his tenure in Happy Valley to last 46 years. Read More...