College Sports

Two current Bulldogs and six members of Georgia

Eight small private colleges across the South are forming a new athletic conference.

With the announcement that Georgia Tech's Sept. 10 road game at Middle Tennessee State will kick-off at 7 p.m., game times for one-third of the Yellow Jackets' 2011 schedule have been set.

Tennessee athletics director Mike Hamilton announced Tuesday he decided to resign so the Volunteers would have a "clean slate" when they go before the NCAA's Committee on Infractions later in the week.

The Bowl Championship Series stripped Southern California of its 2004 title on Monday, leaving that season without a BCS champion.

Jared Norris drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to help Oregon State advance in the NCAA tournament with a 6-4 victory over Georgia on Sunday night.

C.T. Bradford drove in four runs and Nick Routt pitched a six-hitter to help Mississippi State win the Atlanta Regional and eliminate Georgia Tech with a 7-3 victory Sunday.

Brandon Stephen's two-out single to right field in the bottom of the 11th inning gave Georgia a 5-4 victory over Creighton on Sunday in an elimination game in the NCAA Corvallis Regional.

Buck Farmer knew it was important to give Georgia Tech's bullpen an afternoon of rest.

Coach Josh Gregory was jubilant at the notion of tiny Augusta State winning its second straight NCAA men's golf title, yet tearfully sad because it also meant saying goodbye.