Nike players wearing college colors Saturday in Boston

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NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- Tiger Woods has been wearing a Nike logo on the crest of his golf shirt ever since he turned professional 13 years ago. That will change Saturday at the Deutsche Bank Championship, when the swoosh gives way to an "S."

And no, "S" doesn't stand for second place.

Nike is celebrating the start of college football season by having its players wear the logo of their alma maters. Woods will be wearing a white shirt with Stanford's cardinal logo.

Stewart Cink had a yellow shirt draped over his shoulder with the Georgia Tech logo. Other players included Anthony Kim (Oklahoma), Lucas Glover (Clemson) and Justin Leonard (Texas). Paul Casey (Arizona State) had a shirt ready to go until he had to withdraw from the tournament with a rib injury.

No one was more fired up about the shirts as much as Kim, who made the decision to go to Oklahoma when he was taken to a football game during a recruiting trip.

"I'm not going to say it was my idea," Kim said. "But I was the first to ask for that. And now it's happened."

As usual, Nike officials had to calm him down. Kim tried to talk the company into letting him wear a football jersey for his Saturday round.

"I wanted to wear Sam Bradford's jersey," Kim said.

Kim loves the idea so much he claims it might not have happened if not for him. He said he asked Nike if he could wear an OU shirt when he played the first round at Kapalua this year with Camilo Villegas (Florida) the day of the BCS championship game. Given the 24-14 victory by the Gators, it was probably a good idea that he didn't.

And this can't be a good sign for Oklahoma -- Kim will be playing the first two rounds with Leonard, an All-American at Texas.