• Just one more tiny little crack. This sounds like one of those procedural offseason things that will be immediately forgotten until it comes up again next year, but still, the coaches may be having second thoughts about their poll's aiding and abetting the BCS:

Teaff, talking at the AFCA annual convention, said the review coincides with the final year of the Fox television agreement with the BCS. ESPN takes over after next season. He said issues would include whether the number of voters (61 this year) is fair, whether to make the vote that goes with the final BCS standings in December anonymous again and whether the poll would even remain part of the system.

I don't really think there's any danger of the coaches pulling out -- When I spoke to Teaff a couple weeks ago about Kyle Whittingham and Mack Brown's pledge to vote their teams No. 1 regardless of the BCS Championship outcome, he stressed that the coaches have always wanted a voice in the process, and the poll is it. He reiterated that to the USA Today: "Our trophy has become the literal icon of the national championship, that's important. (The coaches) don't want any other trophy." The coaches' repudiation would be a bigger deal than the AP's decision to pull its poll out four years ago because the coaches are institutional insiders with a direct stake in the system -- and the BCS formula would be left with no "traditional" components whatsoever -- but I wouldn't hold my breath.

• It's just business. You hear the joke all the time, but occasionally, it really does seem like a guy has been around way longer than he should. Mark Sanchez, a high profile prospect who waited in the wings for three years (and made a few headlines in the meantime), is officially one of those guys for me. Apparently, Mark feels the same way: He's headed to the NFL despite some buzz that both Pete Carroll and his family were politely gesturing toward a fifth year of sun and Song Girls. Sanchez ain't no fool: He can compete with Matt Stafford this year and still go on the draft's first day, or with Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy and maybe (depending on who you ask) Tim Tebow next year. Take the smart money, Mark.

It's not like USC is hurting for quarterbacks, with past blue chips Mitch Mustain and Aaron Corp attempting to fend off incoming blue chip Matt Barkley (who'll be in for the spring), but their relative inexperience is bound to drop the Trojans to fourth or fifth in the preseason. Oh, the horror!

Writers were falling all over themselves to praise Sam Bradford's decision to make college football relevant again ... er, return to Oklahoma. But it wasn't a bad day for the campuses in general: Other than Bradford, Jermaine Gresham and Trent Williams at OU, Oklahoma State's Russell Okung, Ohio State's Kurt Coleman, UCLA's Alterraun Verner, Charles Scott and Ciron Black of LSU, Cincinnati's Marshawn Gilyard and Kentucky's Trevard Lindley all decided to make their way back to school for their senior years.

We'll know today about the rest of the underclass pack, most notably Percy Harvin and Brandon Spikes at Florida and C.J. Spiller at Clemson, and maybe Georgia safety Reshad Jones will finally make up his mind, too.

• Once again: They're all the same. Which conference is the best? According to J.P. Giglio's tally of out-of-conference records, it's either the ACC or Big East: Those two conferences had the best overall marks this year against other BCS leagues and against other I-A schools in general. I think this means exactly squat -- schedules aren't balanced enough for adequate comparisons, and the numbers are pretty close, anyway.

Here is what I would take away from this kind of broad "study": The six BCS conferences were an overwhelming 93-27 against the non-BCS conferences and 50-0 against I-AA teams. That's the big divide. Among the upper class, the differences are barely worth articulating.

Quickly ... Looks like ex-five-star prospect and USC castoff Vidal Hazelton will land at Cincinnati. ... Cam Sexton is a meh quarterback. but comes off very well in his "exit interview" after deciding to transfer from North Carolina. He emphasizes that the decision was his and he wasn't pressured by UNC coaches, who might have a reason to thin the ranks. ... Andrew Hatch might become the first athlete to travel a BYU-Harvard-LSU-Harvard career path. ... Louisville safety Latarrius Thomas is following Ron English to Eastern Michigan, though he'll have to pay his own way unless he wins an appeal against Louisville, which won't release him from his scholarship to play for English. ... Gene Chizik lands his first signee at Auburn. ... Tennessee still has a little cash to throw at assistant coaches. Well, more than a little: Strength coaches make $190,000? ... And a veteran of both the Ivy League and the NFL has some advice: Go pro, young man. Yeah, he didn't have to go to Princeton to figure that out.