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Our ESPN Stats & Info crew put together 100 numbers you should know with 100 days left before the season starts, and plenty of them are taking up residence in the Big 12. Colleague Mark Schlabach also has a fun column about the inevitable, brutal,...

Inspired by Florida's "#ComePlayWRFortheJoker" campaign, our recruiting writers looked at other ways schools can sell themselves on the trail. Here's a look at recruiting pitches for the Big 12: Baylor Bears What they're selling: The new 45,000-s...

Blog | May 10, 2013

Last week, I unveiled my post-spring Big 12 power rankings, but let's take a closer look at a few superlatives for Big 12 teams this fall. Most complete roster: Oklahoma State Texas has a good case here, but I buy Oklahoma State big time. The C...

We're continuing our march across Big 12 country with your dream trek for 2013. Want to see the best of the best in the Big 12 this season? Come along with us. We don't make the final decisions about where we spend our fall Saturdays, but I'm walk...

Before Kansas State's spring game, coach Bill Snyder flipped a coin to decide which of his quarterbacks would start with the first team. After the game, he said the race was still tied. I went to the fans for their take, and they were only slig...

Kansas State enjoyed a historic season in 2012, winning the Big 12 in dramatic fashion with a win against Texas at home, setting off a party on the field at Bill Snyder Family Stadium the Wildcat faithful will never forget. But the party's over no...

2012 record: 11-2 2012 Big 12 record: 8-1 Returning starters: Offense: 7; defense: 1; kicker/punter: 0 Top returners: RB John Hubert, LB Tre Walker, S Ty Zimmerman, WR Tyler Lockett, OL B.J. Finney, WR Tramaine Thompson, OL Cornelius Lucas Ke...

Colleague Mark Schlabach updated his preseason Top 25 after the spring, and there's still no Big 12 teams in the top 10, but two made his top 15. I agree with shutting the Big 12 out of the top 10, though it would be the first time in league histo...

Let's have a closer look at the last spring game in the Big 12. KANSAS STATE What happened: Quarterback Jake Waters completed 14-of-18 passes for 249 yards and three touchdowns, with 27 yards rushing and a score. His competition, Daniel Sa...

The Big 12's spring football wraps up on Saturday when Kansas State plays its spring game, the last team in the Big 12 to do so. Let's have a closer look: KANSAS STATE When: Saturday, 1:10 p.m. What you need to know: You can watch the g...

Bill Snyder is the elder statesman of the Big 12 coaching fraternity at age 73, and every offseason he faces questions about how much longer he'll coach. On Wednesday, he opened up about the one factor that might bring his career to an end: colleg...

Athlon Sports ranked all 125 coaches heading into 2013, and that includes the 10 coaches in the Big 12. First on the list is no surprise and won't get any argument from me. Kansas State's Bill Snyder checked in at No. 3, behind only Alabama's Nick...

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder says less about less than any coach in the Big 12, and is making no exception about the contest to succeed Collin Klein as Wildcats quarterback. Snyder spoke with the media for the first time this spring Thursday, an...

Everybody loves rankings lists, and college football fans -- by necessity -- seem to like lists even more than average folk. So we have Athlon making another list. First it ranked Pac-12 coaches. Now it ranks all 125 coaches for FBS programs. O...

The big-shoes bus rolls into Manhattan today. And when talking legendary players, all apologies to David Ubben and his Nick Florence Memorial team, the chatter should begin and end with Kansas State and Collin Klein. But now the time has come to talk...

We're continuing our countdown of the Big 12's top 25 players from the 2012 season. Here's more on my criteria for the list. You can take a peek at how the preseason list looked here. We're in the top 10 now, so it's about to get heated, I'm sure....