Wilma gives Miami, GT weekend off

Hurricane Wilma is giving Miami and Georgia Tech the weekend off.

With Wilma expected to arrive with potentially devastating force in Florida this weekend, school and Atlantic Coast Conference officials postponed Saturday’s game between the Yellow Jackets and sixth-ranked Hurricanes.

No. 20 West Virginia’s trip to Tampa to face South Florida also was postponed. The Big East will wait until today to announce when the Mountaineers and Bulls will play.

Georgia Tech will play at Miami on Nov. 19. Miami’s scheduled trip to Wake Forest on Nov. 17 – a Thursday night game – will now be played on Saturday, Nov. 12. ACC spokesman Brian Morrison said no decision has been made on whether the league will shift another game into that Thursday night slot previously held by Miami and Wake Forest.

Central Florida’s home game with Tulane – a team forced from its city, school and home stadium by Katrina’s strike along the Gulf coast – will be played on Friday night, instead of Saturday.

Florida Atlantic’s football team is at Arkansas State on Saturday, and scheduled to fly back to South Florida after the game – a flight that could be delayed depending on Wilma. “We’re on the road, so we’ll probably be better off than most,” said athletic department spokeswoman Katrina McCormick.

Notre Dame loses two players

Notre Dame receiver Rhema McKnight and defensive end Chris Frome will miss the rest of the season because of knee injuries.

•Southern California’s last-second win over Notre Dame was seen by 30 million viewers, making it the most watched regular-season college football game in nine years.

NBC’s coverage of the top-ranked Trojans’ 34-31 victory on Saturday earned a 6.7 national rating, which tied it with the Ohio State-Notre Dame in 1996 for the highest-rated Fighting Irish game on the network in more than a decade. The games are tied for the fourth-highest rating in the 15 years NBC has been broadcasting Notre Dame football.

Former star-turned-coach dies

Ralph M. Graham, a 1930s football star at Kansas State who later coached Wichita State in its first bowl game, has died at 95.

Graham, who lived at the Schowalter Villa in Hesston, Kan., died Friday at Newton Medical Center in Newton, said Beverly Baumgartner, chaplain at Schowalter.

Graham, a fullback known as “Rammin’ Ralph,” was a three-time all-conference choice in the Big Six at Kansas State.

He captained the Wildcats in 1933, and his 196 career points stood as the school record until 1997. He also was a starter in the East-West Shrine game.

Production company apologizes

The company that produces images and content for the Jumbotron at North Carolina State home games has apologized to the university for an offensive image that appeared onscreen during last week’s game against Clemson.

CanesVision, which is owned by the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and also produces content for the hockey team, has reprimanded employees involved in the incident, a team official said through spokesman Kyle Hanlin. It was unclear how many employees were reprimanded, though none was fired.

The incident occurred during the Wolfpack’s 31-10 loss to Clemson last Thursday. After several fans were featured on the video screen with titles such as “Kissing Cam” and “Fan Cam,” an image appeared with the title “Mexi-Cam,” according to an editorial Monday in N.C. State’s student newspaper, the Technician.

The person featured on the video screen was a CanesVision employee, and company director Pete Soto has sent a letter of apology to the university, Hanlin said.