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It will be Year 2 for Deion Sanders as the Colorado head coach, and it seems there are just as many questions heading into this season as there were last. Once again, the Buffaloes will be bringing in — after sending out — a heap of transfers, making it difficult to project how the team […]

The college sports landscape is changing once again, as news broke Friday that the UConn Huskies are joining the Big-12 by 2026 at the latest. This move will include all sports played by the Huskies, except for football, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger on X, formerly Twitter. UConn and the Big 12 are in […]

Cincinnati football head coach Scott Satterfield announced Brendan Sorsby, a redshirt sophomore transfer from Indiana, would be the Bearcats’ starting quarterback in the team’s opener vs. Towson on Saturday, August 31. Cincinnati football joined the Big 12 Conference last year, having previously called the American Athletic Conference home from 2013 to 2022. Last year, it […]

Now I will admit that I do belong to a camp that wonders each year what the practical purpose of a preseason poll is, but I, just like every other college football fan who has been counting down the Saturday’s since March, was elated to see the release of the preseason AP Top 25 Poll […]

If there’s one thing that Arizona football fans haven’t seen a lot of over the last several years, it’s winning. But that changed last season when the Wildcats came away with a 10-3 record, their best in a decade. The question is, can the team carry that success over into their new conference home in […]

Even before Texas and Oklahoma exited the Big 12, Kansas State football was boasting a Big 12 conference championship. Now, the Wildcats are preseason ranked No. 2 in the conference behind newcomer Utah for the 2024 season. The thing with the Big 12 this season, as it becomes a 16-team league, is that it has […]

Iowa State football is a dangerous team in the Big 12 Conference this year. The Cyclones are as hungry for success as anyone in the league. The team bounced back in 2023, from a very disappointing 2022 campaign. Iowa State finished 2023 with a 7-6 record. The Cyclones are picked sixth in the league this […]

With all the conference realignment that has taken place throughout the Big 12 over the last couple of years, Oklahoma State football has remained consistent. They are the stability of the conference now, some would say. That stability comes a lot from their veteran head coach, Mike Gundy, who has been with the program since […]

This 2024 Utah football team comes in with high expectations, but they’ll do it in a brand new conference after spending just a little over a decade in the Pac-12. The Utes enter what will be a much-altered Big 12 Conference that has taken on quite the facelift over the last two years. This season, […]

The Pac-12 was one of the most exciting brands of football to watch last season, and one reason why was the surprising resurgence of the Arizona football program. For a team that had won no more than six games over the previous two seasons, the Wildcats pulled off a 10-3 record last year, including their […]

This year’s Colorado football team under Deion Sanders in his second year will be one of the most intriguing squads of the season. It will once again be changes galore for Colorado, thanks to Sanders and staff doing another overhaul that sent out nearly 30 players while bringing in about the same number of new […]

Technically speaking, the official date for the Big 12 to open their doors to newcomers Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Arizona State isn’t until August 2. However, other conferences have already officially welcomed their new teams—unless they were from the Pac-12—back on July 1 as part of conference realignment. Regardless, a new era of college football […]

If there’s one conference that’s taking on a completely different look for the 2024 season, it’s undoubtedly the Big 12. This conference has been in a major transition phase ever since last season when it added four new schools: BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston. However, this season, it might be more about the losses of […]

The Big 12 Conference is undergoing massive changes in 2024. The conference is welcoming four new football programs including Deion Sanders’ Colorado squad after the departure of Texas and Oklahoma. Moreover, the conference could be in line for a major multi-million dollar deal that could alter the league’s name. In a presentation to league leaders […]

No power conference in the country will undergo a bigger facelift than the Big 12 in 2024. Out are the once-faithful Texas and Oklahoma, who jilted commissioner Brent Yormack and the conference for the greener pastures of the SEC. In their place come former Pac-12 members Utah, Arizona, Arizona State, and Colorado. Their additions come […]

The top-ranked Houston Cougars basketball team was not projected as a number one seed according to many pundits despite their 30-3 record heading into Saturday’s action. Coach Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars dropped their Big 12 Tournament matchup to the Iowa State Cyclones leading to a warning shot that was fired by Sampson. The 2024 Phillips 66 […]

Colorado football’s offseason last year was an eventful one with transfers coming and going from left and right, and so far the 2024 season appears to be going down the same path according to the latest news. Recently, ‘Coach Prime’ Deion Sanders dismissed a defensive lineman who had a promising past and potentially bright future. […]

The Colorado football program has done its best to re-tool this offseason with Coach Prime aka Deion Sanders leading the charge as per usual. The Buffaloes’ defense was its biggest weak point last season and now Colorado football is on the verge of hiring its next coordinator. Recently, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had a […]

It won’t be long until we find out what the last four-team field for the College Football Playoff will look like before the field expands to twelve teams next year, and all that stands in the way of that announcement are 48 hours and five Conference Championship Games, all which potentially have major CFP implications. […]

Let’s just start here: it’s actually pretty crazy that this is the first time something like this has happened. It’s been nearly 40 years since the WWE (then the WWF) held their first WrestleMania event, which from the get-go was billed as a sports entertainment extravaganza, complete with a crossover with MTV that featured Mr. […]

The Big 12 conference looks a lot different this season after BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF joined the conference at the beginning of the year. There will be some major changes next year as well as powerhouses Oklahoma and Texas will be departing for the SEC, and current Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and […]

Could it be that conference realignment, after what seemed like an endless cycle of movement, is finally coming to a halt? Everyone from school presidents to athletic directors to college football fans, in general, is looking for a bit of a breather after what has been a wild month of conference shakeups. While ACC members […]

The Pac-12 is getting absolutely tethered across the sports world after programs opted to leave for the Big 12 and Big Ten. Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin is the latest to torch the conference, responding to a Pac-12 athlete who explains why she chose the conference and why she is now upset. “I chose […]

With the college football landscape undergoing significant upheaval in just the past couple of weeks with the Big Ten and Big 12, is there a natural inclination to find someone to hold responsible, right? The onus has to be put on someone, with the easiest targets likely being the University of Oklahoma and the University […]

Last year, both UCLA and USC announced their intentions to leave the Pac-12 Conference and join the Big 10 Conference for the 2024-25 season. It was a shocking decision amid the Pac-12’s search for a new media deal. As it turns out, the departure of those two schools was only the beginning. There had been […]

The Pac-12 is currently in shambles as programs are deciding to leave the conference left and right. It all started when UCLA and USC opted to leave for the Big Ten starting in the 2024 scholastic year, and this was the first domino that has set off a wild chain of events. The next team […]

After 14 months of speculation, Oregon and Washington are officially headed to the Big 10. Without its two largest remaining brands, the Pac-12 simply cannot survive. It’s only pathway to continuity was retaining Oregon and Washington and getting its nine schools (post-Colorado, USC and UCLA departures) to agree to a new media rights contract. The […]

Washington and Oregon made massive headlines on Friday morning by announcing that they would be leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten. With two more teams now set to leave the conference, Utah and Arizona State are being included in rumors of a potential departure for the Big 12, reports Action Network’s Brett McMurphy. “Arizona […]

A great shift has occurred once again in the college football landscape, with conference realignment once again the culprit, yet this time it centers more around one man instead of a conference. That man, of course, is Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, the former NFL superstar turned head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes. Amidst all the […]

The Pac-12 is currently scrambling as Colorado football announced they will be leaving for the Big 12 amid UCLA and USC football already set to leave for the Big 10. The Arizona football president is now addressing his program’s potential Pac-12 exit for the Big 12 as well, reports The Athletic’s Max Olson. “We’ve still […]

The college football world has been shocked to see that Colorado will be leaving the Pac-12 and heading to the Big 12 after the 2023 season, spurring tons of rumors of potential realignment from several other teams. One school that quickly saw themselves become the subject of these rumors was Oregon State, as they were […]

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders provided his take on the university’s Board of Regent decision to move the school from the Pac-12 to the Big 12 in 2024. Via 247Sports’ Carl Reed: “If everything I’m hearing is true, I applaud our [Athletic Director] Rick George for choosing the best scenario for all athletics at CU,” […]

It’s happening. After weeks of speculation, Colorado football is leaving the Pac-12 for the Big 12 Conference, sources told Brett McMurphy of Action Network. McMurphy adds that the Buffaloes have a Board of Regents meeting scheduled for Thursday, where approval of the move is ‘expected.’ Colorado football seems to be “98 percent” in favor of […]

Texas running back Taylor Tatum, who is rated the No. 1 prospect at his position by the 247Sports Composite in the 2024 class, has committed to Oklahoma football, according to On3’s Hayes Fawcett. Tatum will also play baseball for the Sooners, Fawcett said. Tatum preps at Longview (Texas) and had a standout junior season, rushing […]

Steve Sarkisian’s Texas football program was picked as the preseason favorite to win the Big 12, and the head coach certainly didn’t shy away from such lofty expectations at Big 12 Media Days on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Sarkisian, whose Longhorns team will be playing one final season in the Big 12 before packing their […]

TCU football was picked to finish seventh in the Big 12 in the conference’s preseason media poll in 2022. Horned Frogs coach Sonny Sykes said he expected his team to be selected lower. Instead, TCU had one of its best seasons in program history. The Horned Frogs went 13-2 and advanced to face Georgia in […]

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark put Oklahoma and Texas Football in their place at Big 12 media day. After Yormark was asked about Oklahoma and Texas “carrying the conference” in recruiting, Yormark disagreed. “I don’t think they’ve carried the conference in recruiting. They haven’t been in our championship game the past few years,” per Brett […]

Conference realignment and expansion in college sports have become prominent in recent years with no sign of it slowing down any time soon. The Big 12, SEC and Big Ten all will have new members in 2023 and 2024 and the Big 12 is apparently looking toward adding more schools after Oklahoma and Texas leave […]

As college football undergoes conference expansions, one team that will eventually need to find a conference home is Notre Dame football. While Notre Dame has affiliations with the Big Ten and ACC, the Fighting Irish officially remain an independent team. Being independent has been Notre Dame’s longstanding tradition, so if they do decide to join […]