(U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The best-kept secret in college football was going to be revealed last Saturday. Then Facebook got in the way.
The secret was Notre Dame’s starting quarterback job, which went to sophomore Demetrius Jones.

On the strength of an SEC road win and a dominant victory over Virginia Tech last week, LSU jumped to the top of the UWIRE College Football Poll, leaping over USC, which had held the top spot in the poll’s first two weeks.

(CSTV U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. — In Major League Baseball there is the New York Yankees vs. the Boston Red Sox.
College basketball has Duke vs. North Carolina.
And college football has Michigan vs. Ohio State, Auburn vs. Alabama and LSU vs.

(U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.H. — Suspended University of New Hampshire football player Henri “Hank” Hendricks, 21, pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge, in connection with the May 24 beating death of professional surfer, Emery Kauanui.

(CSTV U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Bill Callahan watched the tape of the Wake Forest game and saw the same thing fans did.
Too many mistakes. Too much room for improvement.

As always, this is the gauntlet of college football, starting with the defending champions and most of the best recent teams not named USC.