(AP) -- The Big Ten released its first football schedule with Rutgers and Maryland included, and the Scarlet Knights are getting quite a welcome to conference in 2014.

Rutgers' first five Big Ten games are: home for Penn State and Michigan, back-to-back road trips at Ohio State and Nebraska, and a home game against Wisconsin.

The Penn State game will be Sept. 13 in Piscataway.

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(AP) -- The Eastern Michigan Eagles need new bathrooms, and coach Ron English is ready to jump out of a plane to get them.

English has pledged to skydive if EMU can raise at least $60,000 through its golf outing June 8 and other donations. Those who donate $5,000 will get to spend a day with English and staff members and skydive with him.

(AP) -- As the power conferences work to secure spots in the most desirable bowl games, the Mid-American Conference and Sun Belt also are trying to expand their postseason lineups.

Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson said he wants his conference to add one more bowl to the two it has already. The MAC currently has deals to send three of its team to bowl games, but Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said he expects that number to grow.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) Virginia coach Mike London says junior running back Clifton Richardson has decided to transfer.

London says Richardson asked for permission to pursue opportunities elsewhere and he wishes him well. Richardson has two seasons of eligibility remaining.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) Rutgers named Julie Hermann its new athletic director Wednesday, and the former No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville promised a restart for the scandal-scarred program following the ouster of its men's basketball coach and the resignation of other officials.

Hermann replaces Tim Pernetti, who quit last month after the firing of basketball coach Mike Rice. Practice videos surfaced of Rice shoving and throwing basketballs at players and yelling gay slurs at them.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team doctor was replaced.

Speaking often in an angry tone that might be otherwise reserved for an argument with an official, O'Brien told reporters in a conference call that the health and safety of his players were his top priorities.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) TCU defensive end Devonte Fields has been suspended for the first two games of the 2013 season due to an unspecified violation of "university and team policy."

Coach Gary Patterson announced the suspension of the Big 12 defensive player of the year in a one-sentence statement Wednesday. Patterson didn't immediately return a message left on his cellphone. School officials had no further comments or details about the statement.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Michigan coach Brady Hoke has taken the Notre Dame rivalry up a notch.

Hoke made a crowd chuckle on Monday at West Michigan Sports Commission luncheon by saying the Fighting Irish are "chickening out" from the storied series.

HONOLULU (AP) Hawaii's athletic department is scrapping a plan to drop the word "Rainbow" from its men's teams' nicknames.

The university announced Tuesday it is changing its football, baseball and other men's team nicknames to the Rainbow Warriors - a name previously used by the football team but dropped in 2000.

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) A six-person committee has completed its review of Auburn's athletic department, and expressed confidence that athletic director Jay Jacobs can make needed fixes.

University President Jay Gogue said Jacobs will release more details of the resulting plans for change and noted that there's "room for substantial improvement." Jacobs is scheduled to address the Auburn Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday with an update on the athletic department, which finished last in the Southeastern Conference in both football and men's basketball.