Big 12 mailbag: OSU playing 8 home games?
Tim Griffin, Big 12...a good home schedule with the four Big 12 games and home non-conference games against Georgia, Houston, Grambling and Rice. I guess the risk/reward is this. Most coaches want their team to face...
Blog | August 21, 2009KU seniors say it's been fun to watch football support grow
Tim Griffin, Big 12...as freshmen during the 2005 season when coach Mark Mangino culminated the season with a victory over Houston in the Fort Worth Bowl. Before that time, attention on the Kansas football program was almost non...
Blog | August 20, 2009Big 12 links: Was Callahan one of the worst coaches ever?
Tim Griffin, Big 12...Big 12 conferences are working on a collective television network for their schools. Mike Finger of the Houston Chronicle/San Antonio Express-News provides a primer on the five most-predictable questions he repeatedly heard...
Blog | July 31, 2009Thoughts on the 'Best of Texas' voting on College FB Live
Tim Griffin, Big 12...A&M 30 percent Mack Brown, Texas 17 percent Dutch Meyer, TCU 11 percent Bill Yeoman, Houston 8 percent Ballots cast: 4,055 Right or wrong: Right My take: The homespun Royal didn'...
Blog | July 22, 2009The Big 12's toughest nonconference games
Tim Griffin, Big 12Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin The Big 12's nonconference schedule is marked with several extremely difficult tests early. These are stateme...
Blog | July 20, 2009Some other great Big 12 moments that almost made my list
Tim Griffin, Big 12...quarterback Jason Swanson passes for 307 yards and four touchdowns to spark a 42-13 victory over Houston in 2005 Fort Worth Bowl -- the Jayhawks' first bowl victory and capping their first winning season...
Blog | July 16, 2009Five games to fear in the Big 12
Tim Griffin, Big 12...of 15 returning starters. And not only do the Cougars return a lot of experience, but they also have a modicum of confidence against OSU. Houston led the Cowboys last season, 16-7, late in...
Blog | July 13, 2009Big 12 lunch links: How about another bowl game at Fair Park?
Tim Griffin, Big 12...them while eating with some hot chicken soup to remember Joe Montana's comeback victory over Houston at the 1979 Cotton Bowl. Or even better, a Fletcher's Corny Dog slathered with extra...
Blog | June 18, 2009Baylor's Finley aims to continue late-season burst
Tim Griffin, Big 12...arrival of transfer Terrance Ganaway, who rushed for 550 yards and scored six touchdowns in 2007 at Houston in Art Briles' final season coaching there. Briles' arrival at Baylor has transformed the Bears...
Blog | June 17, 2009Texas Football's magazine release tells us the season beckons
Tim Griffin, Big 12...the late 1960s when a friend of mine in fifth grade, Richard Jackson, moved to Memphis from Houston. Along with his neat Houston Astros hat that I always was envious of was his copy of...
Blog | June 15, 2009Ranking the best and worst of Big 12 nonconference schedules
Tim Griffin, Big 12...game should showcase Oklahoma's defense as it thwarts Max Hall and Harvey Unga for the Cougars. Idaho State is a bad Division I-AA team that went 1-11 last season. Tulsa and...
Blog | June 10, 2009Baylor's Briles pegged as the nation's most underrated coach
Tim Griffin, Big 12...offense to Texas high schools. That carried over once he became a head coach at Houston, where the Cougars had posted an 8-26 record in the previous three seasons before his arrival. Briles...
Blog | June 03, 2009KSU-UCLA game set for national TV broadcast
Tim Griffin, Big 12...11 Colorado at Toledo, ESPN, 9 p.m. Saturday, September 12 Iowa at Iowa State, FSN, noon. Houston at Oklahoma State, FSN, 3:30 p.m. Kansas at UTEP, CBS College Sports, 7:30 p...
Blog | June 03, 2009Big 12 announces early television schedule
Tim Griffin, Big 12...Colorado at Toledo, ESPN, 9 p.m. Saturday, September 12 Iowa at Iowa State, FSN, noon. Houston at Oklahoma State, FSN, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, September 19 Duke at Kansas, Versus, noon. Tulsa...
Blog | June 01, 2009Four Big 12 players rank among top nine in TD responsibility
Tim Griffin, Big 12...24 2.50 Todd Reesing, Kansas 29 9 68 77 1196 15.53 2.66 Case Keenum, Houston 26 16 58 74 665 8.99 2.85 Matt Grothe, South Florida 39 23 47 70...
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