Spanning the globe on a Friday morning. ...

From the Baton Rouge Advocate, a capsule look at LSU's 2012 football opponents. With changes in the SEC football schedule the LSU-Mississippi State game has moved back to November, setting up the Tigers with a Mississippi doubleheader of sorts as they host MSU and Ole Miss on back-to-back weekends. ...

From Yahoo, this look at the new ACC TV deal, when compared with the Big East numbers, is a reminder of how important the TV factor is in college athletics. Big East football teams were receiving roughly $3 million a year, $14 million less than SEC schools.

It's unclear presently what the Big East might look like moving forward, but that difference is interesting. From a regional perspective, as Memphis enters the Big East it doesn't appear that a huge step forward is made in closing the gap between the Tigers and the SEC schools around them. ...

Ole Miss visits Georgia this fall as the Bulldogs get ready for one of their weakest home football schedules in recent memory, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes. ...

The same track surface used in the Olympics is the one SEC athletes are competing on at the league's championship meet in Baton Rouge this weekend.