COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : ACROSS THE NATION : Winless Ohio Dismisses Lichtenberg

Ohio University football Coach Tom Lichtenberg was fired, two days after his team dropped to 0-8. Lichtenberg, in his fifth year at Ohio U., will be reassigned in the athletic department after completing this season. The team has three games left.

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Michigan State President Peter McPherson has ordered the university to appoint an independent co-investigator to look into charges of NCAA violations by the football team. The Lansing State Journal reported that a former player, Roosevelt Wagner, alleged regular payments to players from boosters and agents and changes to athletes’ grades to keep them eligible to play. “The whole program is dirty,” Wagner told the Journal.

Coach George Perles, already under fire for the Spartans’ record of 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the Big Ten, said he doubts Wagner’s allegations. “What happened was, I threw him off the team,” Perles said.