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Colleague Travis Haney ranked his list of the nation's top 10 "most talented" teams , and a certain burnt orange team you might have heard showed up at No. 2 on his list. It's an interesting approach to ranking teams, and Haney looked at NFL draft...

1. The shifting balance of power is continuing. Since Bob Stoops and Mack Brown's arrival, Texas or Oklahoma has never gone two years without representing the Big 12 in the BCS. Until last season, that is. Stoops' Sooners shared a title with Kansa...

Today's links: Sponsored by Steph Curry's Heat Checks. Trent Dilfer wasn't using kid gloves when he took to criticizing Oklahoma's offense. Kansas offensive lineman Tanner Hawkinson went earlier than he thought, and may be asked to do more than...

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Eighteenth-century agrarian business, but I guess it's all the same principles. Let me ask you, are you at all concerned about an uprising? Could the Big 12 eventually add Connecticut or Cincinnati? The former sounds l...

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops isn't much of a complainer, but in terms of environment equality, it's hard to draw up worse scenarios than Stoops has found his teams playing in during three of their four trips to the national title game. Stoops' Sooner...

After Texas' dramatic Alamo Bowl comeback, Mack Brown sat down and explained the significance of the win to his team. After winning eight games in 2011 following a five-win disaster in 2010, reaching nine wins in 2012 was important. Sure, it signi...

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...

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...

Bob Stoops turned plenty of heads this week when a Sporting News story quoted him showing his less-than-compassionate side in regards to the pay-for-play debate surrounding college athletes. The two choice quotes: "I tell my guys all the time," S...

Who forgot to turn the heat on? Mike Finger of the San Antonio Express-News has some critiques about Texas coach Mack Brown's constantly changing expectations. Oklahoma receiver Trey Metoyer looks back on the reason why his freshman season wasn...

So, how's your 2015 recruiting class looking? You know, the one with all the players who will sign their letters of intent about 22 months from now, a full two high school football seasons from now? If you're a fan of a Big 12 team other than Texa...

Our friends at HornsNation were on the scene at Texas' spring game this weekend, so you can see more about what happened right here. We'll break that down further for games we don't have people attending, but here's a few things I learned from Tex...

How many hours until we get to take another visit to Dunk City? Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel on the relationship between Texas and the Aggies: "For me, it's not a rivalry. We got out of their conference and we're not playing them anym...

My bracket is garbage, but egravning is all alone in first in the Big 12 Blog Readers, with all three of his brackets. Texas Tech looks like it's found its answer to replacing Cody Davis at safety, and it involves a position change. Called that o...

You can only be inspired by our friends at the ACC Blog, but today, we'll start looking at a few of the Big 12's best teams and asking you the big question: Do you buy them as a Big 12 title contender? Or is any talk of a title simply pretending? ...

I mean, who hasn't made a halfcourt shot while also doing a front handspring? Randy Riggs of the Austin American-Statesman has some notes from Texas' press conference to open spring practice. The Statesman's Kirk Bohls disagrees with Mack Brown o...