Vanderbilt QB Mackenzi Adams will start Saturday at Georgia.Motor City Bowl officials were hoping to get the Wolverines, but it now appears that Michigan won’t be bowl eligible.Washington State QB Marshall Lobbestael suffered a torn ACL and MCL at Oregon State and will miss the rest of the season.North Carolina WR Brandon Tate, the team’s best offensive playmaker, suffered a torn ACL and MCL against Notre Dame and is done for the season.Despite a fourth-quarter touchdown pass in a game that was already out of reach, Oregon State coach Mike Riley insists that he wasn’t trying to embarrass Washington State.Florida State coach Bobby Bowden says senior FB Joe Surratt has been kicked off the team.Rutgers coach Greg Schiano says he wishes he had offered a scholarship to Connecticut RB Donald Brown, a local kid from New Jersey who didn’t get an offer from his state university.Texas QB Colt McCoy is leading the Heisman Trophy race.Alabama coach Nick Saban said he watched Texas-Oklahoma on Saturday but added, “It’s really hard for me to enjoy watching a game. You look at it too much like a coach. They get in a formation, you say, ‘How can we adjust to that?’ ‘What would we do against that?’ Next thing you know, you might as well go in and turn your computer on."Here’s some cold water thrown on the idea that Gary Pinkel would leave Missouri for Washington.