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If you pay attention to this blog, you've surely seen our Big 12 post-spring power rankings for 2013. But seven months later at the end of the Big 12's regular season, how accurate do they end up being? During the season, power rankings are more of a...

Receiver Jeffery Mead (Tulsa, Okla./Union) talks about his recruitment and juggling playing three sports....

Oh, Sergio. Bruce Feldman of CBSSports unveils his annual Freaks list, with lots of talk about Baylor. Especially Lache Seastrunk. Keep an eye out for strength coach Kaz Kazadi, who drops the best quote of the offseason. The Chicago Tribune wri...

We looked at the 3,000-yard passers on Tuesday, but what about the guys on the ground? The 1,000-yard mark is the benchmark for a good season running the ball, and the Big 12 had just three players reach it in 2012. Three more had at least 925 yards,...

NORCROSS, Ga. -- ESPN 150 defensive end Lorenzo Carter seems to never stop grinning, even on the football field. His 100-megawatt smile calls to mind another affable defensive end, Michael Strahan, complete with the trademark gap. Even a shoving matc...

The 2013 season will be the final year of the BCS era. And there was much rejoicing! So, what have been the Pac-12 highs and lows of this often confounding system? Thanks for asking! Best 1. USC drubs Oklahoma for the 2004 national title:...

As part of our 100 days until kickoff coverage this week, we're looking at each conference's biggest underachievements and overachievements in the BCS era. Here's what I say for the Big 12: Overachievements 1. Frequent title visits. There's ple...

It's time to look forward to 2013 and the Big 12's best passers. Hitting 3,000 yards is the benchmark for a productive season as a college quarterback. Four Big 12 quarterbacks threw for at least 3,000 yards last season -- but all four threw for m...

Welcome to Twitter, Teddy. Colleague Ted Miller says that college football spring prognosticators turn into fun fodder. Former Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt has not visited Louisville yet, but is sincerely considering Illinois, colleague ...

Getting a little dusty in here. Nice job from the University of Oklahoma, who opened up its dorms to help those who were affected by Monday's tornado. It's been a sad season of team sports for Texas, writes Cedric Golden of the Austin American-...

100 days away ... Illinois is very much in the mix for Oklahoma State QB transfer Wes Lunt. Illini coach Tim Beckman and his assistants are social-media machines. A great look inside a week with Michigan offensive coordinator Al Borges. Michiga...

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,...

TULSA, Okla. - Tulsa (Okla.) Union wide receiver Jeffery Mead simply doesn't know how to slow down and doesn't want to. Mead is a three-sport star for the Redskins at receiver, small forward in basketball and shortstop/pitcher in baseball. The sca...

1. The American Conference will have an 18-game true round-robin schedule with 10 league members, according to sources at the league meetings in Florida. The conference also discussed the site of the 2014 men's basketball tournament and Memphis is th...

We're only 100 days away from the college football season, but today we're looking at what each conference needs to do, team by team, between now and then. Here's the Big 12's checklist. 1. Sort out and develop those quarterbacks. I've written abo...

CHICAGO -- Before the Chicago White Sox faced the Boston Red Sox on Monday night, thoughts from both clubhouses were on tornado victims in Oklahoma. The managers of both teams are Oklahoma State alums and both and had been keeping an eye on the si...