On Wednesday, Saban addressed the issue—again—and again had the same thing to say.

“Well I don’t know where these reports come from,” Saban told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi. “I’ve sort of addressed the situation before. I’m totally committed to the University of Alabama, looking forward to the game we have this week and all my focus has been on LSU and what our teams need to do to play their best.”

In September, it was reported that Saban’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, and a current and former Texas regent spoke about the possibility of Saban succeeding Mack Brown at Texas.

At the time, Saban also denied knowledge of the discussion and interest in any job other than his current one.

“Every year it’s something,” Saban said in September. “Last year, it was the Cleveland Browns. The year before it was something else, going back to the NFL. But (wife) Terry and I are very happy here in Tuscaloosa. We really love the University of Alabama.”

Of course, the Texas job is not available. Brown is in his 16th season with the Longhorns. After back-to-back embarrassing losses to BYU and Ole Miss dropped Texas to 1-2 this season, the Longhorns have won five consecutive games.

Brown has won 156 games at Texas and won the 2005 BCS championship. His Longhorns lost to Alabama in the 2009 championship game.

Since going 7-6 in his first season at Alabama in 2007, Saban is 69-7 with three BCS championships, including the past two.


SCOOTER ACCIDENT SIDELINES GATOR


It’s tough enough for coaches to keep their players healthy on the field and it’s been an especially difficult season for Florida coach Will Muschamp.

He’s lost one player after another this season to injury and the news Wednesday, while different, was also disappointing.

Offensive tackle Tyler Moore will miss the rest of the season after breaking his right arm in a scooter accident Tuesday night, Muschamp told reporters Wednesday.

Apparently, the 6-foot-5, 320-pound Moore lost control of his scooter on a wet sidewalk. He was leaving the cafeteria after eating.

“I hate it for Tyler,” Muschamp said. “But we’ll move forward.”

Moore has just moved from right tackle to left tackle to replace D.J. Humphries, who is out 2-4 weeks with a left knee injury. Moore is the third offensive tackle to be injured this season, joining Humphries and Chaz Green, who is out for the season after injuring his labrum before the season started.

The Gators also have lost the following players to season-ending injuries: QB Jeff Driskel, DT Dominique Easley, RB Matt Jones, DB Nick Washington and LB Jeremi Powell, according to Gatorzone.com.


STANFORD TO RETIRE JERSEY  


The Denver Broncos retired John Elway's No. 7 jersey four months after he announced his playing career was over in 1999. The following year, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. And the Pro Football Hall of Fame welcomed the quarterback in his first year of eligibility.

The one honor Elway never thought would come will take place Thursday night.

Thirty years after he graduated from the university, Stanford will finally retire Elway's iconic No. 7 jersey at halftime of its game against second-ranked Oregon. He'll join Jim Plunkett (No. 16) and Ernie Nevers (No. 1) as the only players whose jerseys have been enshrined by the program.

"Realizing the history, it wasn't something that happened a whole lot at Stanford. And that's why it was a great surprise and thrill to learn when coach David Shaw called me a few months ago and told me that they were going to retire the number," Elway said by phone this week. "I think that makes it so much more special now than if they'd done it earlier."

Stanford always has been selective with bestowing such an honor.

Nevers' jersey was retired in 1970, some 45 years after he led Stanford to a Rose Bowl victory over Notre Dame. Nearly 21 years after he became Stanford's only Heisman Trophy winner, Plunkett's jersey was retired by the school in November 1991.

Nobody at Stanford really knows why it took so long for Elway's jersey to be retired. The Cardinal quarterback was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1983 NFL draft and one of the most celebrated athletes in school history.

Shaw said he started asking the question when he was a wide receiver at Stanford in the early 1990s and asked again after he was promoted from offensive coordinator to head coach in January 2011. In the past year, after Bernard Muir took over as athletic director, those conversations escalated.

"I remember thinking about when I was here. I came in, one of my friends, (quarterback) Mark Butterfield, was wearing No. 7. I said, 'Why the hell are you wearing No. 7?'" Shaw said. "Mark had a great senior year and was great and I just kept thinking, 'Nobody should be wearing No. 7.'

"And I came back as a coach, Toby (Gerhart), great player, 'Why is he wearing No. 7?' The last couple years I kept going around and I talked to some of our historian people, I talked to Bernard and I said, 'We have to do this.' He was completely on board. And everybody I talked to said, 'Yeah, why haven't we done that?' There was no malicious intent. I think it was just one of those things."


SOONERS, BRUINS SCHEDULE SERIES


The University of Oklahoma will play UCLA twice in coming years.

OU said Wednesday that the Sooners and Bruins will play in Norman on Sept. 8, 2018, and OU will travel to UCLA for a game on Sept. 14, 2019, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

OU also says it's working with LSU to reschedule previously announced games between the Sooners and Tigers. LSU was originally to play OU in Norman in 2018 and OU was to travel to Baton Rouge, La., for a game in 2019. OU says the two schools are looking at dates in later years for those two games.

OU also said it has added Akron to the 2015 schedule and Louisiana-Monroe to the 2016 schedule and said both games will be in Norman.


UCONN COACH UNINFORMED


Former Connecticut football coach Paul Pasqualoni says he was never told that one of his players had been accused of sexually assaulting a woman on campus.

Rosemary Richi says she was raped by a football player in September 2011, and is one of four women who have sued the university, alleging the school failed to properly respond to their accusations.

Richi says she told police and school officials about the rape early this year. She says both responded with indifference and told her there was insufficient evidence to pursue the case. The Associated Press does not normally identify the alleged victims of sexual crimes unless they wish to be identified. Richi has gone public with her complaint.

Reached by phone Wednesday, Pasqualoni told the AP he was never informed about the incident.

The athletic department did not immediately return messages seeking comment, but school spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz says the university believes the cases were handled appropriately.

Contributors: Ken Bradley, The Associated Press