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• Joe Williams is hoping to become an all-purpose back at UConn.

• USC's trouble could be Houston's treasure in Markeith Ambles, Joseph Duarte writes in the Houston Chronicle.

• The Memphis Commercial-Appeal's Geoff Calkins says that Paxton Lynch may have a lofty future.

• Former Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti is receiving $1.2 million. Our Lester Munson goes over some of the legal fallout of Rutgers and Erick Murdock.

• UCF QB Blake Bortles is pleased with the offense's progress this spring, Paul Tenorio writes in the Orlando Sentinel.