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The AP Top 25 college football poll sparked a bevy of conversations Monday. Texas and Penn State fans sounded pleased with where their team landed. But there were some vocal fanbases — and not just limited to Ohio State. But for teams left unranked. The Buckeyes still landed inside the top five. The reigning national […]

Texas Tech football is showing its mettle on the college football recruiting trail. The Red Raiders shook up the landscape by grabbing the top-ranked 2027 prospect Thursday. Five-star LaDamion Guyton is Lubbock bound. Guyton chose TTU over Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia per Hayes Fawcett of On3/Rivals. He’s the outlet’s No. 1 overall talent for […]

The Big 12 annually features offensive fireworks. And the 2025 season will feature a deep group of quarterbacks from Sam Leavitt to Josh Hoover. But let’s not ignore the secondary units populating in the Big 12. Travis Hunter creates an opening here for top DB in the conference. Of course he also won the Heisman […]

The Big 12 takes a lot of criticism across college football for not having the firepower at the top of the conference that some of the other leagues, like the Big Ten and the SEC do, but it arguably has more parity than any of them. The conference projects to be very deep once again […]

Every explosive offense in the Big 12 doesn’t start with stout quarterback play. Each QB needs a dominating offensive line before lighting up the scoreboard. It’s no different for the 2025 season in this conference. One team’s fanbase likely will try to present a counterargument. Colorado under Deion Sanders is plagued by inconsistent trench play. […]

The Big 12 gets ridiculed by fans and analysts annually for its lack of defense. Conference games end in offensive fireworks. The feeling is 2025 will present more of the same — except there’s intriguing new talent bolstering defenses here. Last year’s top pass rusher was an eight-sack performer. Brendan Mott is off to the […]

The Big 12 Conference is deep on the air attack side of things for 2025. Wide receiver is a loaded group there in the Big 12. Running back play, however, took huge hits during the offseason thanks to the NFL Draft. Cam Skattebo won’t truck defenses this year for Arizona State, as he’s off to […]

The Big 12 comes equipped with prolific offenses bound to create weekly shootouts. Wide receiver play is an integral reason why in this conference. Especially ahead of the 2025 season with these top five wideouts. This conference birthed multiple perimeter stars for the NFL. CeeDee Lamb is one past Big 12 breakout wideout. Same with […]

The Big 12 is one of the deepest leagues in college football, and while it may not have the same top-end talent that the SEC and the Big Ten has, there will be plenty of drama up and down the standings throughout the season. Last year, the race to Dallas for the conference title game […]

Houston football head coach Willie Fritz isn’t pleased with one aspect of EA Sports College Football 26. It involves one feature his wife pointed out. Fritz is among the head coaches who are in the game. But Fritz shared to Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle one glaring mistake involving him. “My wife told me […]

Travis Hunter left Colorado football as an irreplaceable talent. But his exit leaves Deion Sanders excited for the next young playmakers he can’t wait to “unleash.” Do these young talents reside at the cornerback position? Or do they represent Hunter’s other famed spot of wide receiver? “Coach Prime” spoke glowingly about his 2025 wide receiver […]

Deion Sanders dropped a closet new spin of his 1994 song “Must Be the Money.” Except this version saw the Colorado football coach call out the media without turning to rap lyrics. He called out a double standard involving NIL and how Texas Tech is turning to money. Sanders rose as the most verbose coach […]

It appears four upcoming episodes of WWE Friday Night SmackDown will be taped in Big 12 football markets this fall as the latest collaboration between the conference and TKO Group Holdings. The announcement was made on Wednesday, June 9, 2025. “WWE, part of TKO Group Holdings, and the Big 12 Conference today announced an expansion […]

The college football season is right around the corner, and the start of conference media days really signifies that the 2025 season is close. Big 12 Media Days got underway on Tuesday from Frisco, Texas, and commissioner Brett Yormark took to the podium to discuss the upcoming season. He had a lot to talk about, […]

The Big 12 media days are underway, officially kicking off the 2025 college football preseason as the first power conference to get things started. Commissioner Brett Yormark has already made headlines for discussing changes that need to be made to the College Football Playoff. To help kick off media days, they announced a partnership with […]

The College Football Playoff has dominated the discussion around the sport this offseason as talks of expansion and a potential monopoly for the Big Ten and the SEC begin to heat up. The CFP just expanded to 12 teams last season, but more change already seems to be on the horizon. Talks of a 16-team […]

The BYU Cougars’ unexpected run to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament ended on Thursday night in the Sweet Sixteen at the hands of the Alabama Crimson Tide, who shattered tournament records for both three-pointers attempted (51) and three-pointers made (25) in their 113-88 win. For BYU, even a disappointing ending to the season offers […]

Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd made it clear after his team’s hard-fought victory over Texas Tech that the Wildcats aren’t satisfied just yet. Following their 86-80 win in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals, Lloyd sent a message that should have Arizona fans fired up for the championship game against top-seeded Houston. “You beat Kansas in […]

It wasn’t too long ago that there were concerns about how the Houston Cougars basketball program would adjust to life in the Big 12 Conference. Sure, the Coogs had won five consecutive regular season titles while playing in the American Athletic Conference, but a step up in competition, where the likes of the Kansas Jayhawks, […]

With the SEC and Big Ten dominating the college athletics landscape, at least in terms of revenue share, there is pressure for other conferences to do what they can to secure more resources. These leagues will not be able to keep pace, but a cash infusion can go a long way in ensuring that they […]

As the college football season enters its final stretch, the Big 12 Championship race is heating up, and BYU sits at the center of the action. Tied with Colorado atop the standings at 6-1 in conference play, the Cougars control their destiny, but they need to navigate a challenging path to solidify their spot in […]

Reports surfaced on Tuesday that LIV Golf is searching for a new commissioner, per Sports Business Journal. Two-time major champion Greg Norman has held the role since the inception of the tour. Despite acquiring Jon Rahm last year, Norman is out. The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy reported that Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark was contacted […]

UConn Athletics has been in talks to join the Big 12 conference, a move that would take place in 2026. However, conference commissioner Brett Yormark has announced that the Big 12 is pausing the expansion. Thus, UConn AD David Benedict released an elaborate statement in response to the news. Below is a key excerpt from […]

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 […]