College football notebook

■ Bobby Bowden plans to meet with T.K. Wetherell, Florida State's president, later in the week to discuss his future at the school. Bowden said yesterday that he wants to coach another year but he's not sure he'll be given the chance.

"I've got bosses," he said. "I've got people who would have to approve it."

Bowden, 80, has 388 career wins, second only to Penn State's Joe Paterno among major-college coaches, and has continued to coach with the hope of getting Florida State back among the nation's elite.

"You'd still like to get that big year," said Bowden, who dispelled speculation that he would return only in a figurehead role. "I'd only want to come back as the head coach."

■ Kickoff for Saturday's second-round playoff game between Appalachian State and Richmond will be at 7 p.m. at UR Stadium in Richmond, the NCAA announced yesterday. The game will be televised nationally as part of ESPN's GamePlan package.

Richmond (11-1) is the defending FCS champion. Appalachian (10-2) won the title from 2005 through 2007.

■ Despite rampant speculation that Coach Charlie Weis will be fired, all was quiet around the Notre Dame football offices yesterday. Coaches and players had the day off, and university officials did not expect any news on Weis' future to be announced.

Athletics Director Jack Swarbrick has said he will make a decision about Weis' future this week. Weis has six years left on his contract.

■ Guard Rodney Hudson of Florida State has been awarded the 2009 Jacobs Blocking Trophy as the most outstanding blocker in the ACC, conference officials announced yesterday.

Hudson, a 6-2, 283-pound junior, was first-team All-ACC this season and last season and was second-team All-ACC as a freshman in 2007. He has not allowed a sack or quarterback pressure this season.

■ Georgia Southern hired assistant Jeff Monken of Georgia Tech as its head coach yesterday, the school announced on its Web site.

Monken, 42, is the slot-backs coach and special-teams coordinator for the Yellow Jackets. Southern says he will start with the Eagles after Saturday's ACC championship game.

Monken was an assistant at Southern under current Tech coach Paul Johnson (1997-2001) and also worked on Johnson's staff at Navy.

■ Maryland's season ended with a seven-game losing streak and a school-record 10 defeats, and whether Ralph Friedgen will return for his 10th season as coach remains unanswered.

Friedgen will meet soon with Athletics Director Debbie Yow about his future. If he's fired, the school will have to pay a $4 million buyout. Friedgen, 62, made it clear Saturday night that he wants nothing more than to come back.

"These kids never quit on me. Why would I want to quit on them?" he said. "I want to be there when they're good, so we can think about these times and laugh about them."

■ Larry Porter, an assistant at LSU who has built a reputation as one of the nation's best recruiters, was hired as the head coach at Memphis yesterday.

He replaces Tommy West, who was fired Nov. 9 but coached the Tigers (2-10) through the end of his ninth season and Friday's finale, an overtime loss to Tulsa.

Porter was a running back at Memphis (1990-93) and has coached at Tennessee-Martin, Arkansas State and Oklahoma State. He has coached LSU's running backs since 2005.

■ Coach Mark Snyder of Marshall has resigned, saying in a statement that he made the decision after meeting yesterday with Athletics Director Mike Hamrick.

Snyder, a 1988 Marshall graduate, had a 21-37 record in five seasons, including 6-6 this season.

■ Jeff Hoover, the offensive-line coach at Eastern Illinois, was killed in a car crash late Saturday as he returned home from a playoff game against Southern Illinois. He was 41.

Hoover and his family were riding with strength coach Eric Cash and his family when their Chevrolet Suburban swerved to miss a deer and rolled over just south of Effingham, Ill., according to Rich Moser, an athletics-department spokesman.

Two children also in the vehicle were released from the hospital, and a third was being held for observation, Moser said. Cash, wife Sherri, and Hoover's wife, Penny, were in stable condition at Carle Hospital in Champaign, Moser said.