HUSKERS NAB NEW AD FROM WASH. STATE

Nebraska football fans longing to recapture the Cornhuskers’ glorious past can be assured that the school’s new athletic director knows his history.

One of the first anecdotes Bill Moos told at his introductory news conference Sunday was about tuning into those classic Nebraska-Oklahoma games when he was growing up on a ranch in eastern Washington in the 1960s.

“Never missed one,” he said. “It’s a storied, storied athletic program and a very prestigious institution.”

Moos comes to Nebraska from Washington State, where he had been athletic director since 2010. The 66-year-old agreed to a five-year contract with a base annual salary of $1 million, plus incentives. He’ll start his new job Oct. 23.

Gamecocks RB is out.

South Carolina running back Rico Dowdle will have surgery on a fractured bone in his left leg and miss an extended part of the remaining season.

Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp said Dowdle will have the operation later this week after leaving in the second quarter of the team’s 15-9 victory at Tennessee on Saturday.

Pitt player kneels.

Pitt third-string placekicker Ian Troost took a knee during the national anthem, a decision that was fine with coach Pat Narduzzi and the rest of the Panthers.

“I’m never going to tell a guy you can’t do something,” Narduzzi told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review after Pitt’s 35-17 loss to North Carolina State.

Michigan sets bad record.

No. 17 Michigan committed 16 penalties in Saturday’s 27-20 overtime win over Indiana, a school record that coach Jim Harbaugh would rather not have on his résumé.

Harbaugh said his team made plenty of mistakes en route to its fifth win of the season. At the top of that list was the 141 yards of penalties the Wolverines surrendered, which will continue to be an emphasis for his staff moving forward.

Nittany Lions now No. 2.