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Bowden and the school split yesterday in the middle of his 10th season, which started with the Tigers ranked No. 9 and picked to win the Atlantic Coast Conference. But an opening 34-10 rout by Alabama and recent losses to Maryland and Wake Forest raised calls again for Bowden's ouster despite a recent contract extension.
The school appointed receivers coach Dabo Swinney the interim head coach.
Clemson (3-3) went 72-45 (43-32 ACC) and made eight bowl appearances under Bowden.
Yesterday, Tommy Bowden had two meetings with athletic director Terry Don Phillips and "we agreed that this is the best solution for the direction of the program," Bowden said in a statement.
In other college football news:
* Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark and defensive end Aaron Maybin were honored by the Big Ten for their play in Saturday's 48-7 win over Wisconsin. Clark was picked offensive player of the week and Maybin shared co-defensive player of the week with Willie VanDeSteeg, of Minnesota. Also, the Big Ten announced that No. 3 Penn State's visit to Ohio State on Oct. 25 will be a national telecast on ABC at 8 p.m.
* North Carolina receiver Brandon Tate is out for the season because of a knee injury.
* Penn junior Chris Wynn, who ran the opening kickoff back 88 yards in the Quakers' 27-7 win over Georgetown on Saturday, was named Ivy League special teams player of the week.
* Lance Armstrong agreed to ride in next year's Giro d'Italia and suggested the Italian race - not the Tour de France - will be the main target in his comeback season. The American has never competed in the 3-week Giro.
* Third-place Tour de France finisher Bernhard Kohl, of Austria, tested positive for a banned blood booster when his race samples were checked for the new drug.
* Two-time Grand Slam winner Amelie Mauresmo was upset by Victoria Azarenka, 6-2, 6-1, in the first round of the Zurich (Switzerland) Open.
* English soccer authorities vetoed Madrid as a venue for a proposed exhibition game against Spain because of the racist abuse the team faced the last time it played in the city. *
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