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College football's new playoff system, set to take to the field in a little over two years, is in many ways a mystery, but BCS executive director Bill Hancock gave some clues earlier this week as to some of the mechanisms of the system.

Speaking to John Canzano of 750 The Game in Portland, Ore., Hancock said that a television contract for the new deal is still in the works as is the composition of the selection committee which would pick the four teams that would go into the playoff, but that the number of teams eligible would remain four, despite fans and the media clamoring for a much larger field.

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He's the best player in America you may never have heard of. If you haven't, you soon will.

Dri Archer doesn't play for a big-time program in a big-time conference and, truth be told, in high school he wasn't even a big-time recruit. Kent State was his only FBS offer. But he is one of the best weapons and most exciting players in college football.

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Expectations were low at Rutgers for first-year head coach Kyle Flood, even with a talented and deep team that boasted one of the nation's top secondary units and some big-time talent at wide receiver.

Flood was replacing Greg Schiano, who left just days before National Signing Day to become head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Schiano turned the perpetual laughingstock of a program around — a program that in 2004 had whispers of being dropped to the FCS — and led the Scarlet Knights to five bowl games since 2005, when remarkably they had only one postseason appearance prior to that.

Schiano had turned Rutgers into a program that convinced New Jersey kids to stay home rather than leave for the likes of Notre Dame and Michigan or USC or Penn State. Schiano's departure was going to change everything.

His departure was supposed to be the end of the program.

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Six weeks ago, Texas A&M had a rude awakening in its SEC debut, a 20-17 loss to Florida. It was one of those games in which the Aggies seemed a split-second away from turning average plays into big gains, but missed opportunities spoiled what should have been a banner day for the program.

It wasn't a bad game necessarily, just not a good one.

But the Aggies are now winners of five straight games and ranked No. 18 in this week's BCS standings, a sign of how far head coach Kevin Sumlin has brought this program in his first year.

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The second time around has been far sweeter for Temple, who reentered the Big East after a seven-year hiatus looking nothing like their former selves. Currently at 3-2 overall and 2-0 in the conference, the Owls are exceeding expectations with an unheralded roster and plenty of heart and grit.

During their first stint with the Big East, which began in 1991, the Owls were the doormat of the conference. Things got so bad that in 2004 they were politely asked to find a new conference in which to play. But it took the program hitting rock bottom to revitalize Temple's commitment to football and now Temple is making the most of its second opportunity.

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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. —  The 5-0 Florida Gators are climbing up the polls and exciting their fan base once again, but Tim Tebow isn't ready to jump on that bandwagon, yet.

The New York Jets backup quarterback still closely follows his alma mater and is excited about the turnaround of the program. Since leaving the Gators following his senior season in 2009, Florida has looked nothing like the team that won two BCS National Championships and two SEC titles with Tebow under center — that is until now.

(Getty Images)An innocent tweet by former Rutgers defensive lineman Eric LeGrand at Olympic sprinter Lolo Jones has resulted in a Twitter backlash against Jones.

LeGrand, who suffered a spinal injury in a game against Army on Oct. 16, 2010 which left him paralyzed from the neck down, frequently uses Twitter to engage with fans and other athletes. On Tuesday night he tweeted "@lolojones want to race me?" to which Jones responded "Get Checked for a concussion. Clearly, u've been hit in the head... Cos u arnt beating a track athlete."

Later on, Jones seemed to have realized that LeGrand, currently in a wheelchair as he continues his quest to walk again, is world famous as a motivational speaker and author. She backed off her comments when she learned of his injury by typing that "No, dnt know. sry dont know every football player. He challenged me 2 a race & I responded."

Jones further clarified her thoughts to Yahoo! Sports.

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"I'm truly sorry if I offended anyone by my tweet," Jones said. "When Eric challenged me to a race earlier all I knew was that he was a football player, but certainly had no idea he had become paralyzed from a football injury. I thought I was tweeting in good fun like I always do with the many athletes who challenge me to races."

This past summer before the Olympics, Jones made headlines for tweeting at Jets quarterback Tim Tebow. She, like Tebow, is a self-proclaimed virgin and a born-again Christian.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — And we thought the circus was supposed to be a fun place.

Angered by the media calling the New York Jets a circus, Bart Scott's self-imposed media boycott went to the intimidation level on Friday afternoon when he threatened a member of the media. Dan Leberfeld, the publisher of Jets Confidential and a host on Sirius XM Radio, was threatened by Scott over the Jets linebacker's picture being taken in the locker room.

"We work hard to foster an appropriate working environment. We regret this incident occurred and are reviewing the matter," the Jets said in a statement released Friday afternoon.

Scott was talking cordially with a member of the media, conversing and not on the record, when Leberfeld snapped a photo using his cell phone. Earlier in the week, Leberfeld did the same thing with Scott "because I'm doing a story on writers attempting to negotiate with him to end his media boycott."

This is the picture that set Bart Scott off. (Jets Confidential)

The media boycott by Scott predates the start of the regular season.

The photographic effort by Leberfeld was noticed by Scott, who asked, "Why are you taking my picture?"

"Because I wanted to," Leberfeld answered. Scott then told Leberfeld to "Get a life."

"I said to him, 'I have a life,'" Leberfeld told Yahoo! Sports.

It was at this point when Scott then approached Leberfeld, pointed his finger at the reporter, and said, "I'll kick the [bleep] out of you."

According to Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post, Leberfeld said that he'd sue Scott if Scott hit him, to which Scott replied that he didn't care.

Members of the Jets media relations team separated Scott and Leberfeld, and the Jets linebacker was eased out of the locker room.

"Bart isn't speaking to the media because of the tabloids who called the Jets a circus," Leberfeld said. "But it was actually his friend Brandon Jacobs who started the circus talk this summer."