Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (tickets – not press credentials – sold separately to LSU fanboy and press box bad boy Bobby Hebert (1) ):

'TIS THE SEASON

Leaves fall, weather changes, coaches get fired, the message boards are sizzling with news that Jon Gruden/Steve Mariucci/Fielding H. Yost has agreed in principle to take every major opening in the nation. That's after his wife was seen in (fill in the college town) checking out real estate, of course. Done deal.

That's November for you. This year is no different.

In the real world, two jobs – Kentucky and Idaho – are officially open. There are many more to come – though not as many as last year, when a dizzying 27 jobs turned over. The Dash takes stock of where the carousel is headed:

Goners

Schools that have fired their coaches, or will in the very near future:

With Arkansas at 4-5, John L. Smith figures to be looking for a new job after the season. (AP)Arkansas (2). Coach on his way out: John L. Smith. Why: Stopgap spring hire who didn't get it done, going

BATON ROUGE, La. – As the roars were building in Tiger Stadium and the season-altering upset edged ever closer to reality, nausea set in for Tony McCarron in the Alabama cheering section.

“Honestly,” the father of Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron said, “we were about to throw up.”

AJ McCarron and T.J. Yeldon embrace after scoring the winning touchdown Saturday. (AP)But down on the field in the Crimson Tide huddle, 72 yards from the end zone and down three points with just 94 seconds left, there was no sickness. There was only calm amid the deafening chaos, as the loudest stadium in America reached peak decibel levels. This was the two-minute drill ‘Bama practices every Thursday come to life, the chance for ingrained habits to overcome insane nerves.

Center Barrett Jones recalled someone in the huddle saying, “We’ve got a chance to make history. Who’s going to be the one who makes history?”

Let the record show that the historic play was AJ to T.J. for the TD.

It may ultimately be remembered as AJ to T.J. to the north end zone to South Florida. To the

BATON ROUGE, La. – At a key juncture in the fourth quarter of the LSU-Alabama game Saturday night, former New Orleans Saints quarterback and current radio talk-show host Bobby Hebert was escorted out of the Tiger Stadium press box for excessive cheering.

Hebert and Alabama make for a combustible mix. He famously berated LSU coach Les Miles in the postgame press conference after LSU's 21-0 loss to the Crimson Tide last January in the BCS Championship Game.

On Saturday night, Hebert was warned repeatedly about violating working press box decorum and cheering for the Tigers. Finally, LSU associate athletic director Herb Vincent informed Hebert that he had to leave the press box, and a uniformed police officer escorted him out.

On the next play, LSU scored the go-ahead touchdown.

Hebert's son, T-Bob, played on last year's LSU team. He's the least objective of journalists, but is a popular personality in his home state of Louisiana.

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At the bitter end, there was quite the Cajun stew of bubbling emotion. None of it pleasant.

There was shock. There was deep disappointment. There was rising anger.

When LSU had finished laying an egg – a goose egg – in the BCS Championship against Alabama right there in its home state, the purple-and-gold portion of the crowd spilling out of the Mercedes Superdome was equal parts stunned silent and raging mad. Many looked dazed. But just as many were spewing outrage into the air over a dream season gone horribly wrong at the end.

Les Miles yells at his team during LSU's 23-21 win over South Carolina. (AP)

Then radio host, former Saints quarterback and player father Bobby Hebert put a name and a face to the outrage by jumping all over Les Miles in the postgame press conference. That was the bizarrely appropriate coda to a very bad night.

The No. 1, 13-0 Tigers weren’t just beaten 21-0 last Jan. 9, they were owned. They were owned by a rival led by a former LSU coach. Worst of all, they were beaten by a team the Tigers had beaten 9-6 on the road

I had a conversation with Nick Saban on Wednesday. It was short.

On the Southeastern Conference coaches’ teleconference, I asked the Alabama football kingpin how he felt about being called a curmudgeon. I’d read it from another writer in reference to Saban about a month ago, and I’d thought it myself about Saban maybe 200 times prior to that.

"I don't know what that word means,” Saban responded flatly.

Nick Saban questions a referee during Alabama's win over Mississippi. (AP)

I’m not sure I believe that, because Saban seems pretty smart to me. But I gave him the Dictionary.com definition anyway: “A bad-tempered, difficult person.”

“I don't think it's accurate and I'm not sure I care, and I didn't really even know that,” he said, without rancor. “I appreciate the insight.”

I don’t think he appreciated it much, but I like sarcasm as much as the next guy.

“I don't think that people that know me would say that,” he continued. “I don't think the players here would say that. I don't know if that's something that gets created somewhere

Under president Mark Emmert, the NCAA will hand down suspensions for coaches who violate rules. (AP)

College football and basketball head coaches have been put on notice.

If rules are broken within your program – by anyone – it will come back on you. And the sanctions will be more severe than they've ever been before.

That's the offshoot of a vote by the NCAA Division I Board of Directors Tuesday morning to overhaul the NCAA's entire enforcement structure. The primary changes:

• A four-tiered violation structure, as opposed to the current two categories of major and secondary violations. The intent is to more effectively penalize the major rule-breakers and spend less time on trivial violations.

• An expansion of the membership of the Committee on Infractions, which hears NCAA cases, so the adjudication process moves more quickly. More committee members mean more committee hearings, which means less lag time for schools waiting to hear their fate.

[Also: Forde-Yard Dash: LSU can save America from SEC overload]

• A new penalty structure, with recommended penalties

IN LES WE TRUST?Nick Saban, Les Miles

You say you want a revolution, America? You want to overthrow the status quo? You want the giddy thrill of freedom that comes with a new beginning?

Then you want LSU (1) to beat Alabama (2) on Saturday in Baton Rouge. You want madcap Les Miles to de-process Nick Saban. You want the Southeastern Conference to continue eating its own.

An upset by the Tigers, a 10-point underdog, would greatly enhance the possibility of (dramatic pause) the first BCS Championship Game without an SEC team in seven years. Would we even know how to act?

If everyone in the nation’s most powerful league has one loss, two unbeatens from outside of Dixie would in all likelihood jump into the title game. And right now there are three other unbeatens in contention (sorry, Louisville), all with increasingly strong résumés.

Notre Dame (3)