ESPN Search

The college preview magazines are hitting bookstore shelves now, and Athlon's was kind enough to mail me its Pac-12 preview, thereby creating another reason for me not to stand up. Here are some highlights: The magazine ranks the Pac-12 second...

Last year, the chant of "We're No. 2! We're No. 2!" was heard in both Pac-12 and Big 12 country. That other conference, however much it makes folks grumble, gets to be No. 1 until somebody dethrones it. But the debate among Pac-12 and Big 12 fans ...

The most newsworthy part of a "Heath and Well-Being" initiative the Pac-12 announced Monday was the conference's intention to reduce contact in football practices. From the news release: Football Contact Reduction: The Pac-12 will codify into a f...

When Texas A&M was a member of the Big 12, it scheduled home-and-home series with USC and Oregon. The USC series was scheduled for 2015-16. The Oregon series was set for 2018-19. "When you combine USC and Oregon with the nonconference games we...

Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has been a busy bee this week, yet we somehow missed his update on the Pac-12's progress with its new bowl game negotiations, which included Wilner projecting a potential future lineup. It's an interesting a...

All Pac-12 fans and observers should be focused on two items when it comes to the new four-team playoff that will begin in 2014: 1. The makeup of the selection committee; 2. The announced importance that selection committee will put on strength of sc...

PHOENIX -- Although the new College Football Playoff format likely will ignite a spirited debate between Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and his SEC counterpart, Mike Slive -- as well as every other major conference commissioner -- there is at least ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The NCAA hasn't had a good year. In fact, it's been on a poor run for a few years now. Still, the men's basketball tournament is the organization's annual shining beacon. It's a time when the term "NCAA" is used and not im...

The SEC, as has become the pattern over the past decade, is ruling recruiting just as it has been ruling the national title hunt. On national signing day eve, it has five of the top 10 teams in the ESPN recruiting rankings -- it's pretty much the...

Welcome. I am he as you are he as you are me and this is the mailbag. Goo goo goo joob. (Kevin is the walrus). Follow the Pac-12 blog on Twitter. Notes please. Tyler from Phoenix, Ariz., writes: I know you and Kevin are pretty high on ...

At least two people whispered the unthinkable to me after the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. "That," they said, "was a boring game." That, I realized after some pondering, is what happens when the superior team plays an outstanding game: 35-17 is what h...

Oregon gives the Pac-12 a final 4-4 bowl record, though that record now includes victories in a pair of BCS bowl games. Here's how we see it following the Ducks' 35-17 victory over Kansas State. It was over when: Oregon owned the third quarter,...

Here are three Oregon keys for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: 1. Win the turnover battle: Kansas State is No. 1 in the nation in turnover margin. Oregon is No. 3. The Wildcats are ranked that highly because they've given away only 10. The Ducks are tha...

Oregon (11-1, 8-1 Pac-12) vs. Kansas State (11-1, 8-1 Big 12) Who to watch: The Fiesta Bowl features two of the nation's best quarterbacks, Kansas State's Heisman Trophy finalist Collin Klein and Oregon's Marcus Mariota, who was first-team All-Pac...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Both Fiesta Bowl quarterbacks earned first-team all-conference honors. Both are dual threats. Both are humble guys who inspire effusive praise from coaches and teammates. But Kansas State's Collin Klein and Oregon's Marcus Mar...

Kansas State offensive lineman B.J. Finney talks about the Oregon defense....