Facilities: North Carolina Central and North Carolina A&T will meet at historic Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina at what was planned to be a North Carolina Central home game on October 4. The attendance at the long-standing matchup has grown too large for North Carolina Central’s stadium.

Miscellaneous: Oklahoma State received another large donation from billionaire T. Boone Pickens, this time for the academic side of the institution. He announced last week that he will give $100 million for endowed chairs and professorships at the institution. The donation is expected to fund more than 150 positions and comes just two years after Pickens gave $165 million to the Cowboys athletics department. Pickens has donated about $400 million to Oklahoma State … Illinois football coach Ron Zook and two members of his support staff left Memorial Day for two days on board the U.S.S. John C. Stennis aircraft carrier with the Navy Seals. The ship is based in San Diego, and the group will also spend time at the Coronado Island naval base. The trip coincided with a Memorial Day trip to the Middle East by Tommy Tuberville, Mark Richt, Randy Shannon, Jack Siedlecki and Charlie Weis featured in the NCAA News on April 9.