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I'm not saying it has been a long summer without college football, but last week I was trying to find a way to mount a television to a tree so I could watch while doing yard work. Come on, there was a replay of the 1994 Colorado-Michigan game rolling. Like any of you wouldn't do the same thing.

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We're weeks away from the first use of widespread instant replay in college football, and already there are serious issues in the nation's most prominent conference. SEC coordinator of officials Bobby Gaston admitted replay will change the way the game is officiated, taking more of the human element away. "I think officials will be a little hesitant when the ball is loose," Gaston says. "Unless they are 100 percent sure that he was down, I think you will probably see them go 'fumble,' since it can be reviewed and overturned" * The question has gone from "if" to "how much longer" the WAC can keep Boise State. With the Silicon Valley Bowl folding, the league now has just two automatic bowl tie-ins and is one of two conferences (including the Sun Belt) that won't use instant replay this season. Although Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson has downplayed ideas of further expanding his nine-team conference, two factors could force the league's hand: Boise State's rise as the nation's best non-BCS team and, more important, the new 12-game schedule beginning in 2006. Adding Boise State would ease scheduling issues and give the league another team to generate bowl revenue. * Southern California will monitor QB Matt Leinart's throws in fall camp, easing him back into full competition. Although January surgery on his throwing elbow was successful, Leinart began throwing only this summer. That means sophomore John David Booty and incoming freshman Mark Sanchez--both of whom will battle for the top backup spot--will get a majority of the reps early in camp. * Oklahoma State is back to the same dilemma from last fall: If Bobby Reid wins the starting quarterback job, what do the Cowboys do with QB Donovan Woods, the team's best athlete? Reid won the job last year before sustaining a shoulder injury in the spring. He's a better thrower and runner than Woods, and the offense is more balanced with Reid starting. In other words, look for Woods to play wide receiver if he doesn't win the job. * Though the BCS conferences are following the Big Ten replay prototype, the Mountain West has given coaches the ability to challenge calls--an NFL-based system no other college conference is using. "This time next year," says one Mountain West coach, "everyone will be using this system." Each coach will receive one challenge per half, but he must have an available timeout to throw the red challenge flag. As in the NFL, if the challenge is successful, the team keeps a timeout. If it is not, the team loses a timeoutt.

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