Terrelle Pryor is listed as No. 3 on the Ohio State depth chart behind starter Todd Boeckman and backup Joe Bauserman. Coach Jim Tressel said Tuesday that he was hoping all three would get to play in the opening half against Youngstown State, a Championship Subdivision opponent the Buckeyes beat 38-6 a year ago. "He's nervous because he's the kind of guy that wants everyone to be pleased with his performance, starting with himself. He's a perfectionist," Tressel said of the 6-foot-6, 235-pounder out of Jeannette, Pa. "But I think when it comes down to the concepts that our people have asked him to understand, the true Xs and Os that people have asked him to understand, I think he's done an excellent job."

Seeking its first national championship in 28 years, the University of Georgia is on top of The Associated Press preseason Top 25 for the first time. The Bulldogs received 22 first-place votes and 1,528 points from a panel of 65 media members in the poll released Saturday.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, as much as 25% of USC's football team, including Joe McKnight, has been affected by a run of tinea cruris, known more colloquially as "jock itch." Head Coach Pete Carroll told the Times he'd never seen anything like the current outbreak and pointed a finger at new compression shorts the team has been wearing underneath their football pants. "We've had to adjust to some new equipment that we're wearing that didn't work out right," Carroll said. "It's funny how that happened."

USC quarterback Mark Sanchez dislocated his left kneecap and was carted off the practice field Friday, as reported by the Associated Press. Sanchez was injured after making a throw during practice and landing awkwardly. He was taken for X-rays and an MRI, and team doctors say there is no ligament, cartilage, or bone damage. He is listed as day-to-day. Sanchez said he hopes to be back in time for the Trojans? opener Aug. 30 at Virginia.

As the Longhorns begin preseason practice on Monday, Mack Brown and his staff are formulating a plan to best utilize UT's top two quarterbacks. Colt McCoy remains the unquestioned No. 1 after throwing for 5,873 yards and 51 touchdowns over the last two seasons. But Josh Chiles possesses the type of big-play ability that could be a real asset to the Longhorns. Texas would like to use McCoy at quarterback, and Chiles as something of a wild card ? running pass patterns, taking direct snaps, etc. UT tried the two together at times last season, but nothing gelled. "We'd like to see if it works," Brown said. "We're really developing that package as we speak. We're going to start working on it immediately to see where it goes, simply because John and Colt are two of our best players and two of our most productive players."

Oklahoma has kicked freshman wide receiver Josh Jarboe off the team, Coach Bob Stoops announced Friday. "We are disappointed in this outcome, but our complete review and the final decision is in the best interest of the program," Stoops said in a prepared statement. Earlier this week, Jarboe was the subject of a 74-second video posted on YouTube. Jarboe's obscenity-laced rap included references to shooting people and guns. The Tulsa World reported that Stoops' decision came after he met Friday morning with Jarboe. "We outlined for Josh the expectations we had for him when he arrived and, unfortunately, those expectations have not been met," Stoops said. "Josh needs to learn from this experience. We hope he can move forward in a positive manner."

Georgia garnered 22 first-place votes in the poll, with No. 2 USC and No. 3 Ohio State each receiving 14 first-place votes. Oklahoma, with three first-place votes, and Florida, with five first-place votes and returning Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, were fourth and fifth, respectively. Georgia finished No. 2 in the final Associated Press writers' poll and No. 3 in the final coaches' poll last season.