UTSA tops North Texas in C-USA championship

San Antonio: Frank Harris threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 49 yards and another score, lifting No. 23 UTSA to its second-straight Conference USA championship with a 48-27 victory over North Texas on Friday night at the Alamodome.

UTSA knocked off North Texas for the second time in six weeks. In a game on Oct. 21, it took Harris’ 10-yard pass to De’corian Clark with 15 seconds remaining to give UTSA a 31-27 victory.

Not wanting a repeat of its regular-season finale a week earlier in which UTSA found itself in a 24-0 hole against UTEP, the team came out firing from the start, scoring on the opening possession.

After falling behind 10-7, the Roadrunners got 17 straight points, ifor the lead at the break and never trailed again.

Harris and the offense rolled up 571 yards of total offense.

Florida dismisses QB Kitna amid child porn charges

Gainesville, Fla.: Florida formally dismissed quarterback Jalen Kitna from the team after his arrest on five child pornography charges that police said included an image of a man having sex with a young girl.

The Gators scrubbed Kitna’s name from their roster and his biography from their website, just hours after Kitna’s first court appearance. Kitna was released from jail on an $80,000 bond and ordered to have no unsupervised contact with minors and no internet access.

Kitna, 19, returned to Texas with his parents, retired NFL quarterback Jon Kitna and wife Jennifer.

Although Kitna remained enrolled in classes Friday, the University Police Department issued him a trespass warning that bars him from campus for three years, pending the outcome of his court case. Kitna also would need to have to go through a student code of conduct hearing to be eligible to return.

Notre Dame quarterback Drew Pyne announced Friday on social media that he is putting his name in the transfer portal.

Pyne posted on Twitter that being a student-athlete at Notre Dame was “one of my proudest honors ...” as well as, “Now it’s time for me to take on a new challenge, and I will be entering the transfer portal.”

Florida Atlantic hires Herman as football coach

Boca Raton, Fla.: Former Texas and Houston head coach Tom Herman will take over at Florida Atlantic as it heads into its first season in the American Athletic Conference.

The hire comes just days after FAU fired Willie Taggart, who went 15-18 in his three seasons with the Owls. Details of the contract with Herman were not immediately available.

FAU’S final season in Conference USA ended with a 5-7 record and an overtime loss to Western Kentucky.