Florida defensive tackle Gary Brown has been dismissed from the football team following his arrest last weekend. School spokesman Steve McClain says Brown has a history of “not meeting a set of expectations” at Florida and is no longer part of the program.

A high school football star who had signed to play at Vanderbilt University was shot to death early Thursday by his mother’s ex-boyfriend shortly after police arrived to investigate a report of a person with a weapon, authorities said. Officers heard four or five gunshots around 2:30 a.m.

Nebraska has added a year to the contract of head coach Bo Pelini and raised his base pay to $2.1 million per year. The deal keeps Pelini at the Huskers’ helm through Feb. 28, 2015

Florida has hired Arizona Cardinals defensive backs coach Teryl Austin as its defensive coordinator. Austin comes to the Gators with 19 years of coaching experience, including 12 at the college level and the past seven as an NFL assistant.

Central Florida has been put on two years probation after the NCAA says it committed “major” football recruiting violations. The NCAA report released Thursday says two former UCF employees placed about 200 non-permissible phone calls and about 100 non-permissible text messages from June 2007 to January 2009 to 27 recruits and their parents.

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said Tuesday that the window for expansion by the conference is open for the next year as the conference begins negotiations for a new television deal.

Florida State announced Sunday it will vacate 12 football victories and a 2007 men's track national championship in an academic cheating scandal, along with dozens more victories and placings across 10 men's and women's sports. The NCAA stripped the school of wins in which 61 athletes implicated in the scandal contributed.

Southern California coach Lane Kiffin is apparently trying to get the inside track on recruiting a 13-year-old quarterback from Delaware. The father of David Sills says Lane talked to the seventh-grader by phone Thursday and that the coach told the boy he'd like to have him come to USC.

Southern California coach Lane Kiffin is apparently trying to get the inside track on recruiting a 13-year-old quarterback from Delaware. The father of David Sills says Lane talked to the seventh-grader by phone Thursday and that the coach told the boy he'd like to have him come to USC. The boy's answer, according to his father, was: "Absolutely." The Delaware News Journal first…

Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly says the school has decided how it will handle wide receiver Michael Floyd after he received a citation for underage drinking in Minneapolis last month and the 20-year-old is working out with the team. Kelly said Wednesday because of privacy laws he couldn't say anything more about Floyd other than the issue had been "adjudicated and we're moving…