-- FILE -- In this Nov. 24, 2008, file photo, Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder talks during a news conference in Manhattan, Kan. After Snyder revitalized the worst program in major college history and created a football powerhouse, workers had to widen the roadway leading into town so that every game day Bill Snyder Highway could funnel tens of thousands of cars, campers SUVs and minivans to an expanded Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2008, file photo, Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt looks on from the sideline during a NCAA college football game against Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind.. When Wannstedt was hired by alma mater Pittsburgh before the 2005 football season, one of his first promises was that the Panthers would erect a virtual fence around western Pennsylvania and dissuade the area's top high school recruits from going elsewhere.

In this photo taken Tuesday, June 23, 2009, provided by the University of Arkansas, part of a new artificial surface at Reynolds Razorback Stadium is shown in Fayetteville, Ark. Arkansas' first college football game on the new surface is scheduled for Sept. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/University of Arkansas, Wesley Hitt) ** NO SALES

In this Sept. 22, 2007 photo, Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald looks at the scoreboard during the second quarter of a college football game against Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio. Northwestern has extended Fitzgerald's contract through the 2015 season, the school announced Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Fitzgerald, a former All-American linebacker at Northwestern, has been the Wildcats' head coach since 2006. He joined the coaching staff in 2001.

University of Cincinnati head football coach Brian Kelly speaks at a news conference at UC in Cincinnati Monday June 22, 2009. The University of Cincinnati on Monday said Kelly has signed a contract extension, adding a year at nearly $1.5 million.