Some links from around college football on a Thursday...
-- Estimates for Big East payouts continue to change.
-- In case you missed it, former Steelers receiver Hines Ward has joined NBC Sports as an analyst. He’ll do a little work here on the college side as well.
-- Mark Emmert called a four-team playoff “workable.”
-- Jerry Sandusky keeps asking for a delay in trial.
-- Arkansas coach John L. Smith has done it all. His next challenge is coaching the Razorbacks this season.
