#Big Eight

Has Georgia surpassed Alabama as the best program in college football?Dan Wolken looks at if Georgia can now be considered the team to beat in college football. Big 12 football has come a long way in 18 months. From possible extinction to viability. From newfound parity to newfound prosperity. And then on a stormy Monday night in Inglewood,…

ORLANDO, Fla. - OU wraps up a difficult season - its worst since the final season of the John Blake era - with the Cheez-It Bowl. For the Sooners, the game against Florida State is a chance to put a positive ending on the season, against a team with plenty of momentum heading into the game, and begin building toward next season. A win would help OU…

The first college football bowl game was played on Jan. 1, 1902, and it was decidedly not a classic. Michigan beat Stanford 49-0 in the inaugural Rose Bowl. Among the lowlights: nine Stanford fumbles and its captain saying that his team was quitting with eight minutes remaining. But in the nearly 121 years since then, football fans have enjoyed a…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - In the Big Ten home opener, the No. 14 Indiana Hoosiers host Nebraska, a team riding a three-game win streak over Florida State, Boston College and at No. 21 Creighton. Indiana looks to rebound from a 63-48 loss at Rutgers on Saturday in a game where the Hoosiers shot 30.4 percent as a team. Indiana coach Mike Woodson wants to…

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First, Kansas routed Tennessee Tech 56-10. Tennessee Tech is neither Tennessee nor Texas Tech, but still. Popping a Division I-AA team is what any self-respecting Power Five Conference football team should do. For the Jayhawks, that's improvement. Then Kansas stunned West Virginia 55-42 in overtime, in Morgantown, no less. The Mountaineers are down…

Oklahoma leads the series 46-38-3. This weekend's Nebraska/Oklahoma matchup may seem lackluster at this point. The Cornhuskers are 1-2 and head coach Scott Frost has been fired, making Nebraska a 10.5-point underdog. This means we have a bit of a disappointing revisit of what was arguably the biggest series of the Big Eight and early Big 12 era.…

What can college football do for an encore after a wild weekend that saw two top-10 teams shocked at home and a coaching change at one of the sport's high-profile programs after just three games? The table is set for another round of drama with a pair of interesting non-conference matchups. The lead showdown is No. 13 Miami (Fla.) traveling to No.…

While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction: Some bark from Sark. Texas' Steve Sarkisian is getting feistier by the minute, which is fine. He was a little Nick Sabanish on Monday when he was asked which quarterback was taking first-team snaps and he answered, "That's for me." It's the first time he hasn't been more candid about…