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Thanks for all the e-mails this week. Good to hear from you. Here's where you can reach me if you've got more to say. Mike in Overland Park, Kan. writes: Hey Dave, regarding your "10 best Big 12 players ever" list -- I guess I should have known it...

David Ubben is talking Devonte Fields, rivalries, and recruiting trail in this week's Friday Four Downs in the Big 12....

Glad we could all reach a consensus on the Big 12's all-time greats list. West Virginia QB Chavas Rawlins enrolled early and came to Morgantown this spring, but he's already transferring. Odd move there. Was Ohio State AD criticizing or complim...

South Carolina, which has just three players committed for this recruiting cycle, picked up a 2015 verbal on Friday. According to multiple sources, wide receiver Dexter Neal (Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson) is set to play for the Gamecocks. Buffal...

Class of 2014 tight end Montez Sweat (Stone Mountain, Ga./Stephenson) committed Thursday to sign with Vanderbilt, multiple sources report. His high school teammate, four-star running back Dallas Rivers, picked the Commodores in March. Sweat, a 6-...

We'll start a new series today looking at the player each Big 12 team's most indispensable player. He's they guy they can least afford to lose and the guy to whom an injury or departure would have the most effect. Let's get started with West Virgi...

Mel Kiper Jr. is continuing his look through the top prospects at each position in advance of next year's NFL draft, and his list of the top 10 cornerbacks includes four players from the Big 12. It was a deep position last year, but could it be th...

Poor OKC fans. Brutal past couple weeks. SI.com's Stewart Mandel has a lot of Big 12 talk in his mailbag. He says Bob Stoops has a point, and weighs in on WVU's struggles in the conference. Mac Engel of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says just wh...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- Everyone calls him "Pee Wee," but not in an ironic way that you would call a big man "Tiny." No, defensive tackle Davonte Lambert (Milledgeville, Ga./Georgia Military College) was born to that nickname. "I was a premature bab...

May is the worst month of the year for college football. Ex-Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe got about $5 million in buyout money after being pushed out by the league, writes Rachel Bachman of the Wall Street Journal. Holy cow. Big Ten teams are l...

We wrapped up our Ultimate Big 12 Road Trip earlier this week, but let's take a look back on where it'll take you. A reminder: The goal isn't to see every team or see X team Y number of times. The goal is to see as many games as possible that are ...

At the ACC meetings in Florida on Tuesday, Pittsburgh AD Steve Pederson sounded optimistic about renewing a rivalry with Penn State, but the Panthers' biggest rivalry might continue to go unplayed for awhile. From colleague Brett McMurphy: While ...

Is the season here yet? Wes Lunt's high school coach's phone got lit up after Lunt announced he was transferring from Oklahoma State, writes Jimmie Tramel of the Tulsa World. Ex-Oklahoma State receiver Justin Blackmon says he doesn't have a sub...

We'll wrap up our analysis of the Big 12 schedules with league sophomore West Virginia. Here's a closer look at the Mountaineers' schedule. Full schedule: Aug. 31: William and Mary Sept. 7: at Oklahoma Sept. 14: Georgia State Sept. 21: ...

Hope you all treated your moms right yesterday. Gary Patterson talks about his quarterback battle, his team's expectations and says he'd have Oklahoma State as his Big 12 favorite in an interview with Randy Galloway of the Fort Worth Star-Telegra...

DALLAS -- Kansas coach Charlie Weis spent a season as Florida's offensive coordinator under Will Muschamp in 2011. He joins Iowa State's Paul Rhoads (Auburn defensive coordinator in 2008) as the only Big 12 head coaches with experience in the SEC sin...