College Sports

An early-morning rally and last-minute social media campaign couldn't keep star tailback Silas Redd from leaving Penn State for Southern California.

Georgia Southern is ranked third in the College Sporting News Preseason FCS Football Poll. The Eagles check in behind 2011 FCS National Championship Game participants North Dakota State and Sam Houston State.

South Carolina reserve quarterback Tanner McEvoy was arrested in North Carolina and charged with speeding and driving after consuming while under age 21.

Officials at Georgia Southern University say a national search will begin immediately after the school's athletic director announced his resignation.

The Southern Conference preseason poll and All-Conference Team votes are in, and Georgia Southern was voted, by the nine SoCon coaches, atop the league poll.

Penn State's trustees may not like the NCAA's unprecedented sanctions against the university's football program, but they say the alternative - the so-called "death penalty" - would have been worse.

Penn State football was all but dismantled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno's victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent years molesting children, sometimes on school property.

In Monday's preseason poll of media attending the 2012 ACC Football Kickoff at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C., the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets were picked second in the Coastal Division.

Summers aren't quiet anymore for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Shortly after Penn State tore down its famed statue of coach Joe Paterno, the NCAA announced Sunday it would impose "corrective and punitive" sanctions against the university in the wake of a devastating report that asserted top university officials buried child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant coach more than a decade ago.3