The NCAA has rejected a final appeal to reinstate Dez Bryant and Oklahoma State has probably seen the last of its All-America receiver. The junior is considered a top NFL prospect.

"He has not told me what he will do, but if I had to guess, I would say that he would decide to not continue with school and just continue to prepare himself for the draft," said Willie Baker, Bryant's attorney.

Baker said the season-long suspension was a result of the lie alone and that Bryant wasn't found guilty of breaking any other NCAA rules. He also suggested that the NCAA could develop ways to rehabilitate student-athletes who break the rules.

Instead, he said, the NCAA used "the most severe form of punishment that you can dole out to a student-athlete."

University officials have installed 43 surveillance cameras at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium that watch the 101,000 who fill the stadium on game days. Officials said they had been wanting to make the upgrades, which cost about $400,000, ever since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001, on New York and Washington, D.C.

The cameras can focus close enough to see facial expressions or catch someone sticking a bottle of alcohol under the bleachers.

The Atlantic Coast Conference will send teams to the Sun and Independence bowls starting next year. The league said it renewed six bowl deals and reached agreements with two others for the four-year period from 2010-13. The league also extended deals with the Orange, Chick-fil-A, Champs Sports, Meineke, Music City and EagleBank bowls. If an additional ACC team is eligible, the conference will conditionally send it to San Francisco's Emerald Bowl.

The first major college football game at the new Meadowlands Stadium is going to feature Rutgers and Army. The schools and the New Meadowlands Stadium Corporation announced that the two New York metropolitan area teams will play on Oct. 16. ... The Western Athletic Conference has suspended replay official Michael Goshima for one game after he failed to overturn a call on a field that was incorrect in a game last weekend between San Jose State and Boise State.

Freshman Ryan Williams ran for a season-high 179 yards and No. 22 Virginia Tech (6-3) avoided its first three-game losing streak in six years, holding off East Carolina (5-4), 16-3, in Greenville, N.C.

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