COLLEGE FOOTBALL Iowa's Brad Banks AP's top player; UCLA cans Toledo

Kentucky's coach is set to become Baylor's coach.
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For a guy who never started a college football game before this season, Iowa quarterback Brad Banks caught on pretty fast.
Not only did Banks become the nation's top-rated passer, he also led the Hawkeyes (11-1) back to national prominence and into the Orange Bowl.
"I can't imagine a better success story," Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said. "Brad wasn't on anyone's radar screen in late August. But he improved every week, and played his best in our biggest games."
Other than two fumbles in a loss to Iowa State, Banks was nearly perfect in No. 3 Iowa's winningest season ever.
The miscues did nothing to take away from his sensational play, and Banks was chosen Monday as The Associated Press College Player of the Year.
The voting
The 6-foot-1, 202-pound Banks received 24 votes in balloting by 71 members of the AP college football poll board, which includes representatives of newspapers, TV and radio stations.
He edged Southern California quarterback Carson Palmer by three votes, with Miami running back Willis McGahee third with 10 votes. Penn State running back Larry Johnson was fourth with six votes, Miami quarterback Ken Dorsey had five votes, and Washington State quarterback Jason Gesser had three votes.
Banks completed 155 of 258 passes for 2,369 yards, with 25 touchdowns and just four interceptions. He also ran for 387 yards and five scores.
In the Orange Bowl on Jan. 2, Banks will match passes with Palmer, who threw for 3,639 yards and 32 TDs.
Morriss moves to Baylor
Kentucky coach Guy Morriss is set to become the second Southeastern Conference football coach in a week to jump to the Big 12.
Morriss will be formally introduced as the replacement for fired Baylor coach Kevin Steele during a news conference Wednesday in Waco, a source close to the Bears program confirmed Monday night.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Morriss was on the Baylor campus Monday before returning to Lexington, Ky., where he announced his resignation as the Wildcats coach.
Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart confirmed the resignation late Monday night, saying only that Morriss, who is a Texas native, resigned to take another coaching job.
Toledo fired by UCLA
UCLA has been a .500 team since a school-record 20-game winning streak ended four years ago. The Bruins have also lost four straight to crosstown rival Southern California -- the last two by a combined 58 points.
Those are two of the main reasons first-year athletic director Dan Guerrero decided to fire Bob Toledo, UCLA's coach of seven years.
"I felt a change in leadership was necessary," Guerrero told a news conference Monday. "We need to raise the bar, we need to start winning Pac-10 championships again. We want to have a national-caliber program here, we certainly think we should be one of the top programs in the country."
The Bruins (7-5) certainly didn't resemble that in their last two games, losing to the fifth-ranked Trojans 52-21 and No. 7 Washington State 48-27.
Solich will call plays
Nebraska coach Frank Solich re-hired himself as the Cornhuskers' offensive coordinator -- for one game, anyway.
Solich announced last week that he would no longer call the plays on offense.
But he said Monday that he might not have a new offensive coordinator hired by Dec. 27, when Nebraska plays Mississippi in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La.
Southern Utah hires coach
Utah assistant Gary Andersen was hired Monday as head coach at Southern Utah.
Andersen, who just wrapped up his sixth season as a Utes assistant, replaces C. Ray Gregory, fired after the Division I-AA Thunderbirds finished 1-10.