Quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, who started the SEC championship game, has been dismissed from the Louisiana State University football team. LSU Coach Les Miles announced the decision Friday but didn't give details on why Perrilloux was taken off the team.

Just in case you forgot about this game, worried sick about Roger Clemens' legal bills ... Just in case you've allowed the BCS to slip off your radar screen, distracted by the NFL playoffs ...

When a pre-game moment of silence stretched to an awkward minute or three Monday, a chant of "U-S-A ... U-S-A ... " went up in the Superdome, reminding us, if ever so briefly, that we're all on the same team. And you couldn't blame Ohio State for thinking that team must be LSU.

By Ralph D Russo NEW ORLEANS -- Redemption and validation. Top-ranked Ohio State enters the BCS national championship game against LSU searching for redemption, hoping to bury the memories of an embarrassing loss in last year's title game.

By Jim Naveau, The Lima News, Ohio Jan. 7--NEW ORLEANS -- If college football coaches are the superstitious sort, chances are good that Ohio State's Jim Tressel will be getting lots of invitations from other coaches to get together and talk football this spring.