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Burnt Orange for one half of Dallas’s revered Cotton Bowl, Crimson for the other. It’s one of the best scenes in sports, the kind of picture that defines college football for generations of fans.

Oklahoma-Texas: They Know Drama

0 comments by on 10/9/2015

For all of the mystique that surrounds college football’s best rivalry game, the Red River Shootout rarely produces what many would consider instant classics. Of the last 20 meetings between Oklahoma and Texas, the final margin of victory has fallen within a touchdown just six times. In fact, there have been just as many games […]

September Superlatives in the Big 12

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With one month and all non-conference games in the books, an award for every team in the Big 12: Best Team: Baylor Through their first three games, the Bears still look ready to take home the Big 12 crown for a third straight year. The September swing of SMU, Lamar and Rice gave Art Briles […]

What to Watch in the Big 12 This Weekend

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Key storylines to follow in the five games involving Big 12 teams this weekend: Oklahoma State at Texas We’ve reached the point where people in Austin are talking about a home loss to California

JACKSONVILLE, FL – JANUARY 02: Joshua Dobbs #11 of the Tennessee Volunteers attempts a pass during the TaxSlayer Bowl against the Iowa Hawkeyes at EverBank Field on January 2, 2015 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

5 Key Questions: Oklahoma Sooners vs. Tennessee Volunteers

0 comments by on 9/10/2015

In a meta sense, this weekend’s matchup between Oklahoma and Tennessee feels like two programs on converging trajectories. Now in his third year in Knoxville, UT coach Butch Jones is earning rave reviews for putting the Volunteers back on what appears to be a path to respectability. On the other sideline, Bob Stoops is fighting to […]

ESPN’s College Football Playoff Nightmare

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ESPN is paying $470 million annually to broadcast the College Football Playoff, and it’s safe to say the Worldwide Leader made out pretty well in year one of the deal. The inaugural field featured two of college football’s bluest bloods representing the SEC and Big Ten in Alabama and Ohio State. Defending national champion Florida […]

Charlie Strong does seem to be changing the way things are done at Texas, a very good thing for the Longhorns. Yet, that process of change just isn’t going to be a swift one. It will take time, and Saturday night’s loss to UCLA affirmed as much.

Degree of Difficulty Rising for Charlie Strong at Texas

0 comments by on 8/14/2015

Roster churn is universal in college football during times of regime change. Everything being bigger in Texas, the transition from Mack Brown to Charlie Strong has produced a particularly robust number of defections in the last two years. The notable attrition has been attributed to Strong’s desire to rehabilitate the culture of Texas football. After […]

Bloguin Top 50: No. 19 — Oklahoma

0 comments by on 8/4/2015

Oklahoma Sooners 2014 Record: 8-5, 5-4 Big 12 (lost bowl game) 1 Burning Question: Is Bob Stoops done? The story of Oklahoma football at the moment belongs to its coach, not the team. Bob Stoops won the national championship in his second year with the Sooners and has spent the last 15 seasons trying to […]

Bloguin Top 50: No. 30 – West Virginia

0 comments by on 7/20/2015

West Virginia Mountaineers 2014 Record: 7-6 overall, 5-4 Big 12 (lost to Texas A&M in the Liberty Bowl) 1 Burning Question: How Important was Tom Bradley? Last season, Dana Holgorsen brought in Bradley, a veteran defensive coordinator from Penn State, to help coach the WVU D. Although his job title was defensive line coach, Bradley […]

Big 12 Media Days: One Key Question for Each Coach

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One big question for each coach at Big 12 Media Days, which kick off today in Dallas: Baylor – Who replaces Bryce Hager? As is usually the case with quarterbacks, many of the questions about Baylor this offseason have focused on replacing Bryce Petty. If you haven’t noticed, Art Briles has hadn’t much trouble in […]

Nick Saban and the College Football Circle of Life

0 comments by on 7/16/2015

One year at Toledo. Five years at Michigan State. Five years at Louisiana State. Two years in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins. Nick Saban is accustomed to giving his employers the Don Draper treatment. The Nicktator’s expected one-night stand with Alabama is now going into a ninth season, though. It should come as no […]

Bloguin Top 50: No. 45 – Northern Illinois

0 comments by on 6/29/2015

Northern Illinois Huskies 2014 Record: 11-3 (lost bowl game) 1 Burning Question: Can the Huskies Keep the Streak Alive? Two programs have won at least 11 games in each of the last five seasons. One is Oregon – no surprise. The other is NIU. Quietly, the boys from DeKalb have put together a Boise State-like […]

Why is David Boren Talking About Big 12 Expansion?

0 comments by on 6/25/2015

That collective groan you heard on Wednesday afternoon was coming from college football writers and fans reacting en masse to the zombie-like resurrection of conference realignment speculation. Playing the part of the Night’s King: University of Oklahoma president David Boren, who just couldn’t resist telling reporters that he thinks the Big 12 should add two […]

No Line Needed: Five Blind College Football Bets for 2015

0 comments by on 6/16/2015

I normally don’t make a habit of mimicking anything that ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd does. A few years back, though, he started doing an annual bit in which he would pick sides on a few college football games in the offseason well in advance of the release of point spreads. I thought it was a […]

Conference realignment’s empty promises

0 comments by on 6/12/2015

The fifth anniversary of Nebraska leaving the Big 12 for the Big Ten apparently gave editors everywhere the same idea, as a slew of conference realignment retrospectives from football writers came out yesterday. Not surprisingly, one of them from Stewart Mandel of FOX Sports took the ever-popular “winners and losers” angle. It’s an odd exercise […]

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Five Favorite College Football Win Total Bets

0 comments by on 5/28/2015

Sketchy-as-all-get-out online gambling site 5Dimes this week made its annual play to get way out in front of the competition in posting win totals for the upcoming college football season. The betting limits are low, the juice is ridiculous and no one who intends to make any money should go anywhere near them. It’s also […]

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