News and notes from CBS Sports' pre-game, halftime and post-game show COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY hosted by Tim Brando, along with analyst Spencer Tillman during the broadcast of Auburn-Alabama.

(On reaction to breaking news that Mississippi State's head coach Sylvester Croom resigned today after completing his fifth season).

TIM BRANDO: Certainly the administration felt the pressure of Houston Nutt's instant success at Ole Miss.  That had to be a major factor.

SPENCER TILLMAN: It did. It's not unlike what's happening down at Alabama with the white-hot pressure that Nick Saban is putting on Tommy Tuberville at Auburn. So it's problematic for sure. 

BRANDO: ...It reduces the number of African-American coaches in major college football to two, and I am often asked why we continually bring up this subject. But you know what, the answer is simple, there are 119 Division I-A jobs and the number of African-American coaches is two. That's not acceptable.

TILLMAN: Timmy, I don't so much get wrapped up in the numbers game because it's too much of an entitlement trap.  The thing that I like to do is point out the process or the lack of access to a process.  With this Lane Kiffin deal, if it stands up at Tennessee and he's hired I've got to believe that Charlie Strong is a more qualified coach than Lane Kiffin was for that position. Yet he wasn't able to get access to the process.  You look at the success that Turner Gill is having at Buffalo.  You look at Houston's coach having great success there, Kevin Sumlin, outstanding process going on there.  These guys don't have a chance to get to the process.

BRANDO: We're talking about proportionality.  It is an issue. It's inescapable. You can't get away from it.  70 percent of the players playing this game are of color and less than one percentage point of the 119 Division I-A (coaching) jobs are of color. 

TILLMAN: Since you are doing it with the numbers, 53 percent of the players at the 65 Division I level that comprise the BCS are players of color. What that tells me is you can play for us on the field, but you can't coach us.