Lane Kiffin has been fired as head coach of USC after a blowout loss on Saturday to Arizona State.

USC is now 3-2 and Ed Orgeron has been named interim head coach.

Orgeron was previously a head coach at Ole Miss.

Kiffin had a 28-15 record in four seasons at USC.

Jack Del Rio is expected to be a candidate to replace Kiffin at USC permanently.

EA Sports will not produce their college football video games as legal battles over the use of college athletes continues.

The announcement from the company came after the Southeastern Conference, Big Ten and Pac-12 joined the NCAA last month in saying they would no longer license their conference trademarks in the game.

UCLA ran its first play on Saturday with just 10 players to honor the late Nick Pasquale.

Pasquale was hit by a car and killed on Sept. 8 while walking in the early morning at the age of 20.

Pasquale's parents and brother joined coach Jim Mora Jr. and athletic director Dan Guerrero for an on-field ceremony after the first quarter. 

Pasquale, a 5'7 receiver, had earned the nickname "Pacman" from teammates.

Players from Georgia and Georgia Tech protested the NCAA's treatment of athletes on issues ranging from concussions to compensation in games on Saturday.

Players wrote on their wristbands "APU," which stands for All Players United.

Ramogi Huma, NCPA president, told Outside the Lines that the gesture was months in the making, with players from across the country having participated in weekly conference calls.

Johnny Manziel isn't viewed as a conventional NFL prospect at quarterback historically, but he may be aligned with where the position is moving.

"Nowadays, you have to be special as a pocket passer to get away with being just that," said one area scout. "It's essential to have mobility to make it. I know he's 5-foot-11, 6-foot, but I believe, with the way the league is going, with the success of the mobile quarterback, if he can grow up and study and work, he can be successful."

Manziel has average arm strength, but above average accuracy and excellent athleticism. His biggest issue is his size.

Arian Foster admitted to being paid while playing in college at Tennessee.

"I just feel strong about the injustice that the NCAA has been doing for years," Foster said Friday. "That's why I said what I said. I'm not trying to throw anybody under the bus. ... I feel like I shouldn't have to run from the NCAA anymore. They're like these big bullies. I'm not scared of them."

An excerpt of the documentary was obtained by and posted on SI.com.

"I don't know if this will throw us into an NCAA investigation -- my senior year (2008), I was getting money on the side," Foster said in the video. "I really didn't have any money. I had to either pay the rent or buy some food. I remember the feeling of like, 'Man, be careful.' But there's nothing wrong with it. And you're not going to convince me that there is something wrong with it."

A regent from the University of Texas spoke with Nick Saban's agent about his interest in the Longhorns if Mack Brown retired.

The call took play after the Jan. 7 title game.

"Nothing went on that I know of. I haven't talked to anybody about that situation," Saban said Thursday on his weekly radio show. "... Quite frankly, I'm just too damn old to start all over some place else."

Saban is under contract at Alabama until 2020 and is being paid $5.4 million.

Stanford head coach David Shaw was a quality control coach for three years under Jon Gruden with the Oakland Raiders.

Stanford runs a number of different formations designed to confuse the defense.

 “He would say it every single day: ‘What you want to do on offense is present the illusion of sophistication but all in all remain very simple and basic,’" said Shaw of Gruden. "So very often we’ll throw a whole bunch of different stuff at them, but we’re going to run a basic day-one installation play. Something we’ve run thousands of times. Something very, very simple. But for the defense, it looks very complicated. So we want to present these illusions, then run a regular play that we just want to execute right.’’

Jadeveon Clowney will wait to have surgery on his injured foot.

Clowney's bone spurs on his right foot have grown more acute since last season and have nagged him since high school.

"I'm going to get it cleaned out after the season's over with," Clowney told the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald Journal.

Clowney is widely expected to be the first or second player taken in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Dion Jordan touted his record against Andrew Luck and Stanford during his time at Oregon. Jordan was on the field for two blowouts by the Ducks against Stanford while Luck was at the school.

Jordan's Miami Dolphins play Luck's Indianapolis Colts in Week 2.

Jordan was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft.

"Yeah, me and Luck know each other pretty well," Jordan told reporters this week. "I never lost to Andrew Luck. I don't plan on it."