Texas A&M terminates head coach Sherman

Mike Sherman was fired as the head football coach at Texas A&M on Thursday after the Aggies finished the regular season a disappointing 6-6.

Sherman went 25-25 in his four seasons. He was hired at the end of the 2007 season, three days after Dennis Franchione resigned.

His best and only winning season came last year, when the Aggies won their last six regular-season games and lost in the Cotton Bowl to finish 9-4.

Athletic Director Bill Byrne said he will talk with the assistant coaches to decide who will serve as the interim coach for Texas A&M's bowl game.

The Aggies are moving from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference next year.

Texas A&M entered this season with 18 returning starters and a top-10 ranking and were expected to contend for the Big 12 championship and be a factor in the national title hunt.

They won three in a row after their first skid, but a three-game losing streak, which included two overtime losses, ensured the Aggies of a mediocre season. The low point of the season came when Texas A&M ended its more than century-old rivalry with Texas with a 27-25 loss at home on Thanksgiving Day.

Chandler Harnish and Northern Illinois arrived at last year's Mid-American Conference title game with an undefeated league record and a spiffy national ranking.

Then the Huskies were stunned when Miami of Ohio scored a last-minute touchdown to beat them.

Harnish and his teammates worked all season for another chance.

"I feel like this is where my legacy is going to be left," the quarterback said.

Northern Illinois (9-3, 7-1) will play for the title again Friday night at Ford Field in Detroit, this time against the Ohio Bobcats (6-2, 9-3), who won the MAC East over second-place Temple. The Owls, who had an 8-4 overall, record, finished 5-3 in the MAC.

Harnish has thrown for 23 touchdowns and four interceptions this season, and he's also run for 1,351 yards. Ohio has an impressive quarterback of its own in Tyler Tettleton, who has thrown for 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions.

Robby Wells, Savannah State's ex-football coach, received a $240,000 settlement to dismiss a federal discrimination lawsuit he filed last year claiming the historically black college fired him because he is white.

The settlement, first reported by the Savannah Morning News, states that the school still insists it did nothing wrong.

Wells became Savannah State's first white football coach when he was hired in 2007. He led the Tigers for two seasons, with records of 5-7 in 2008 and 2-8 in 2009.

He resigned suddenly in January 2010, soon after he signed a one-year contract extension, saying it was for "personal reasons."

Four months later, Wells filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that said Savannah State administrators told Wells to resign or face being fired barely a week after a meeting in which they brought up Wells' race. Wells claimed administrators told him that alumni wouldn't support him because he was white and that local residents wouldn't approve of him being engaged to marry a black woman.