Wearing jeans, a blazer and sunglasses at football practice yesterday, Rutgers’ Tim Pernetti looked very much the league’s youngest athletic director. This guy, however, may have him beat on the hip factor: he’s living in a dorm… For fans who think the rules of common decency – and harassment - are suspended at a football game… Bummer about Dez Bryant. Bigger bummer that the NCAA fails to see gray when it comes to mentors…

The Champs Sports Bowl deal is done. ACC no. 3 vs. Big East no. 2 starting in 2010. (Orlando Sentinel)

CBS Sports had a Cincinnati day. Mike Freeman loves the underdog Bearcats. Dennis Dodd says if an underdog’s going to bust into the BCS, it’ll be Boise State over Cincinnati. Gregg Doyel thinks both, or Boisinnati, are just plain dogs. (cbssports.com)

Cincinnati’s offense has had the ball for 35 minutes. In the last two games combined. The defense is getting tired. (AP)

Well, it’s over. Lee Corso thinks Cincinnati’s going to lose. (Cincinnati Enquirer)

UConn safety Aaron Bagsby did his penance. Now he wants to make amends. (Hartford Courant)

Pitt’s been feeling good about its special teams. But it hasn’t seen UConn’s Jasper Howard yet. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Bill Stull was booed three plays into his first game. It might’ve helped get him to here. (Connecticut Post)

After six years on campus, Adam Gunn better be Pitt’s MVP on defense. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Sure the UConn-Pitt game’s on ABC. But only on three percent of the country’s ABC. We won’t even see it in New York. (soxanddawgs.com)

Rutgers’ other linebackers are hassling Damaso Munoz. Rutgers practiced in wind yesterday for the first time. (Star-Ledger)

Catching up with Chris Sailer, Rutgers’ two kickers’ former coach. And the one who told placekicker San San Te he was a DIII prospect. (Home News Tribune)

It takes more than one fumble to topple Mo Plancher. (Tampa Tribune)

The billboard thing takes another turn. FSU’s bent out of shape because no one asked permission to use its logo. (St. Petersburg Times)

Mike Williams could break all sorts of records. Either way, he might be the league’s best receiver. Donnie Webb cleaned out his notebook and found a cornucopia of information. (Syracuse Post-Standard)

Doug Marrone’s changing Syracuse. But so is Greg Paulus. Menawhile, Morgantown is slipping as a sports town.(Times West Virginian)

Noel Devine thinks Ryan Clarke is a Ninja Turtle. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)