This leaves John Brantley as the lone backup to Tim Tebow.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida backup quarterback Cameron Newton was charged with stealing another student’s laptop computer after being arrested Friday.

Newton was suspended from the team, spokesman Steve McClain said, and was being held in the Alachua County jail. He has been charged with felony counts of burglary, larceny and obstructing justice.

According to the University Police Department, Newton stole the laptop worth $1,700 and threw it out his dormitory window Friday when officers arrived to investigate the theft.

A student reported the computer stolen Oct. 16, according to the police report, and an investigation linked the laptop to Newton five days later when he allegedly used the machine to access the school’s network. The school identified the user name as “cnewton,” police said.

University police went to Newton’s dorm Friday, were invited inside and noticed the laptop on Newton’s desk. Officers left the room to confirm that the computer matched the serial code of the laptop reported stolen, according to the report. When they returned, it was gone.

According to police, the laptop had been painted black on the top and had “Cam Newton” written on the top in white paint. Officers found the computer behind a trash bin outside the dorm and learned that “Mr. Newton threw the computer out of his bedroom window,” the report said.

Newton, a sophomore from College Park, Ga., passed for 40 yards as Tim Tebow’s backup last year. He has been slowed by injuries this season — he sprained an ankle early in the season and injured his neck in a car accident earlier this month.

He has appeared in one game this season, completing one pass for 14 yards and rushing for 10 yards on five carries against Hawaii on Aug. 30.

Newton is the second Florida player with legal troubles this season. Backup cornerback Jacques Rickerson was kicked off the team two weeks after he was arrested and accused of slapping his girlfriend, choking her and then covering her face with a pillow. He was charged with felony battery.

FOX will not match ESPN’s offer, which has been reported to be in the $500 million range for the rights to broadcast the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta bowls, and the Rose Bowl when it’s the national championship from 2011-2014. The most FOX reportedly said it would offer was about $408 million.

The Rose Bowl Game will continue to be televised by ABC Sports until 2014, when that contract expires.

“Even with today’s vast economic uncertainties, FOX Sports made a very competitive bid to keep broad-casting BCS games free to every home in America, one that included a substantial rights fee increase, and certainly as much as any over-the-air network could responsibly risk,” according to a FOX statement. “Un-fortunately the university presidents and BCS commissioners were not satisfied and they’ve decided to take their jewel events to pay television. We wish everyone well.”

The BCS will be on cable for the first time in its 10-year history.

During an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, Obama repeated his desire for a playoff to be im-plemented in college football.

“I think any sensible person would say that if you got a bunch of teams who played throughout the season, and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear, decisive winner, that we should be creating a playoff system,” Obama said.

He suggested to shorten the regular season by a game or two and include eight teams in a three-round tournament.

Earlier this year, three congressmen wanted the BCS to be investigated by the Justice Department’s anti-trust division for a violation of federal law. They said it’s an “illegal restriction on trade because only the largest universities compete in most of the major bowl games,” thus taking most of the millions of dollars that should be available to smaller schools.

Obama originally expressed his desire for a college football playoff during an interview at halftime of ESPN’s Monday Night Football on the eve of the election.

“I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this,” Obama said. “So, I’m going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it’s the right thing to do.”

He had 35 yards on 12 carries and one touchdown in the game, bringing his season totals up to 52 carries for 197 yards and three touchdowns.

He’s played in eight of Ole Miss’ 10 games.

The Rebels play at LSU on Saturday.

Here’s a look at this week’s BCS Standings.