Texas is rising, Purdue holds steady in this week’s Power Rankings

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Boubacar Toure scored 13 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and had a career-high five blocked shots and Eastern Michigan closed the game with a 16-2 run to defeat 67-63 Central Michigan on Saturday.

I don’t know if, at this moment, Jordy Nelson is a better wide receiver than Michael Crabtree. But Jon Gruden thinks Nelson is a better fit for what the Raiders are trying to do on offense next season, so he swapped the wide receivers Thursday. There are 100 different ways to read into the Raiders’ move of cutting Crabtree and singing Nelson — and we’ll get into a handful of them in a moment — but one thing stands out above all else: This transaction is Gruden putting his stamp on the Raiders once again. He’s letting everyone know that, while he inherited some solid talent in Oakland, this is his show now, and that the holdovers in the building — no matter who they were hired by — work for him.