College Sports

Georgia Tech junior offensive tackle Nick Claytor said Wednesday that he plans to forego his senior season and enter the 2011 NFL Draft.

John Jenkins and Festus Ezeli scored 18 points apiece and Vanderbilt beat No. 24 Georgia 73-66 on Wednesday night to snap the Bulldogs' nine-game winning streak and ruin their first game back in the Top 25 since the end of the 2003 season.

Jerai Grant scored a career-high 20 points and Clemson won its eighth straight game, taking its snow-delayed contest with Georgia Tech 87-62 on Wednesday night.

University of Georgia cornerback Brandon Boykin of Fayetteville and offensive guard Cordy Glenn of Riverdale have both decided to return for their senior year with the Bulldogs.

Georgia linebacker Marcus Dowtin, who was fourth on the team in tackles in 2010, has been released so he can transfer to another school.

The preliminary television rating for the BCS title game is down 12 percent from last year.

Les Miles has decided to try to build on the success he's already had at LSU rather than rebuild the team for which he once played.

Wes Byrum kicked a 19-yard field goal as time expired and No. 1 Auburn beat No. 2 Oregon 22-19 to win the BCS national championship Monday night.

Wes Durham, Voice of the Yellow Jackets as well as the play-by-play voice for the Atlanta Falcons, was named Georgia's Sportscaster of the Year, announced by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Major college football's postseason is more likely to return to the old bowl system, which didn't guarantee a No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup, than to start using a playoff in the next eight years.