* Should things not go well (enough) this season for the Gators, it will cost UF $6 million to buy out Will Muschamp (through 2017).
* A 13-member, NCAA selection committee will ultimately choose which four teams will make the playoffs to determine this season’s national champion in football. It’s an interesting mix–ranging from Mississippi’s Archie Manning and Nebraska’s Tom Osborne to Stanford’s Condoleezza Rice. Really.
* Thousands of students recently moved into residence halls on the USF campus. Among those doing the heaviest lifting: volunteers from the USF football team. Nice touch. It’s also a way of saying: “We like it when you support us at games. Well, it works both ways.”