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Time for our weekly collection of fun facts and tidbits, courtesy of ESPN Stats & Information, as well as sports information departments around the Big 12. Thank you, folks. We love you. Did you know ... Since the beginning of 2011, when W...

Our friends at RecruitingNation took a look at recruiting spending across the nation this week, topped by a column from colleague Mitch Sherman. ESPN.com gathered budget data from 99 of 120 Football Bowl Subdivision programs for the 2011 and 2010 fi...

Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby has accepted the Big 12 Conference commissioner job, with the announcement to be made Friday in Dallas, a source told ESPN.com's Andy Katz. Bowlsby replaces Dan Beebe, who was fired in September 2011 as th...

We ranked the top backfields in the Big 12 in 2011 last week. What about names will you need to know soon? ESPN Insider KC Joyner named his top five in college football this year, and Texas' Malcolm Brown is the only Big 12 player on the list. Th...

The ESPN Stats & Information crew wrapped the 2011 season with its final conference rankings of the season, and after the shakeup and nonconference play of the bowl season (except, of course, the national championship), the SEC maintained its No. 1 s...

Here's how I voted in our final ESPN.com Power Rankings of the 2011 season. 1. Alabama 2. LSU 3. Oklahoma State 4. Arkansas 5. Stanford 6. USC 7. Oregon 8. Boise State 9. South Carolina 10. Michigan 11. Baylor 12. Wisconsin 13. Michiga...

We'll be wrapping up the 2011 season for awhile here at ESPN, and we've already honored a few deserving seniors, but it's time to make a full team of players who have been at their programs for four or five years (juco transfers aside) and won't be c...

Editor's Note: Tune into the "AT&T ESPN All America Team Show" on Saturday (ABC, 1:30 p.m. ET) to see who ESPN's writers and experts selected. It's been a fun season across the Big 12, with a few big names who didn't play as well as we thought...

Most people see Stanford's Andrew Luck as the prohibitive Heisman favorite heading into 2011? But is he? According to ESPN Insider Ryan McCrystal and the Heisman Predictor, no. That honor goes to Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones. Jones edge...

We're all about the Heisman race here on ESPN.com today, and here's your first look at the Big 12 contenders for the Heisman Trophy entering the 2011 season. 1. Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma: Jones joins Stanford's Andrew Luck as one of the prohibiti...

Josh Cooper gives a look at the Longhorns heading into 2011 for ESPN Insider and asks the question: Can Texas regain its spot among the nation's elite? Improvement in a few key areas could help the Longhorns re-scale the Big 12 mountain in the nea...

ESPN.com fantasy sports analyst Christopher Harris put out his list of the 2011 draft's top fantasy rookies, and who's sitting alone on top the list? Former Kansas State running back Daniel Thomas. I couldn't agree more. If you're a faithful re...

"College Football Live" wanted help putting together a spring top 25, and I provided it as one of the ESPN.com Power Rankings voters during the season. Here's my spring top 25 heading into 2011. 1. Oklahoma 2. LSU 3. Oregon 4. Boise State 5...

Missouri's second game of the 2011 season has been moved to a national Friday night broadcast on ESPN. The Tigers will travel to Arizona State on Sept. 9 and kick off at 10:30 p.m. ET. Missouri also played Iowa in Sun Devil Stadium in the Insight ...

You look hot enough to cook a pizza on. Colleague Bruce Feldman says Oklahoma's Geneo Grissom is one of a handful of redshirt freshmen to look out for in 2011. Texas Tech's Robert Prunty is among ESPN's top 25 recruiters of the year. He helped ...

In most respects, National Signing Day 2011 was business as usual for Oklahoma under Bob Stoops. Grab a couple of the nation's top prospects? Six in the ESPNU 150. Rank among the nation's top classes? The Sooners are No. 7, according to ESPN. ...