COLLEGE FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT / AROUND THE NATION : Oregon’s Bellotti Gets New Contract

Oregon Coach Mike Bellotti has agreed to a seven-year contract that could pay him in excess of $700,000 a year.

Bellotti has led the Ducks to a 30-17 record and three postseason appearances in his first four years.

The agreement runs through the 2005 season and calls for the first three years to be followed by a four-year annual rollover arrangement.

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A judge entered innocent pleas on behalf of Wisconsin fullback Jael Speights, who is charged with sexually assaulting a woman.

The freshman from Zion, Ill., was charged last week with two felony counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of burglary. The woman told police she was repeatedly threatened, beaten and choked as she was sexually assaulted in her apartment July 31.

DNA evidence linked the 18-year-old Speights to the assault, a criminal complaint said. He waived his preliminary hearing and Judge Paul Higginbotham entered innocent pleas on his behalf. He is being held on $15,000 bond and could face up to 80 years in prison if convicted on all the charges.

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Washington State starting cornerback Chris Martin will sit out the season because he has been declared academically ineligible, Coach Mike Price said.