Texas Longhorns are at risk for repeating history

The Texas Longhorns are almost always a powerhouse within Big 12 football... yet they have ended up just short of powerhouse status on the national scale. In the past seasons the Longhorn Roster has been just inches away from pulling in a title. This season is no exception. The Texas Longhorns have done very well in the Big 12, but with big games still ahead and other teams like Boise State, Cincinnati and Iowa all also boasting undefeated records the Longhorns have no room to slip.

Longhorns players and coaches all seem to be aware of this and are hoping that this pressure will propel them through the rest of the season. "We controlled our own destiny last year being No. 1 in the country after this game and we let one second take it away from us and put it back in the system," says Mack Brown Longhorns Head Coach, referring to the Red Raiders' game-winning TD with one second remaining. "We would rather continue to control our own destiny."

Well UT, we're rooting for you! Hook Em Longhorns!

Big 12 Week Six match-ups, predictions and videos

This week there are several great Big 12 match-ups... while picking which games I will watch would be like picking a favorite child, I can say that some games will be higher on my list than others... But thats all I'm saying. Check out the videos of previous matchups from some of these teams!

1) Nebraska @ Missouri


2)Oklahoma State vs. Texas A&M
3) Iowa State @ Kansas
4) Baylor @ Oklahoma

5)Kansas State@ Texas Tech
6) Colorado @Texas

Lets Go Big 12 Football!

Iowa State Cyclones travel to neutral stadium and create a Bowl Game feel in the middle of the season

The Iowa State Cyclones took on the Kansas State Wildcats last week at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Typically in Big 12 football playing in neutral stadiums is reserved solely for Bowl Games and the post season.

However, ISU athletic director Jamie Pollard said that there were not only financial reasons for playing the game at arrowhead, though one quote said that each team was walking away with about $1.8 million for the two game series and a well attended home game at Jack Trice Stadium can only pull in about $1 million.

Pollard said that he also just liked the feel of Iowa State fans rallying around a road game. "Our 11,000 fans who bought tickets from our ticket office sends a loud message that our fans think this is a neat thing to do."

Pollard said that ISU would not rule out doing this again if the timing and financing was right. Iowa State Fans are torn, some think the trip was a great excuse for a vacation while others feel that giving up the power of the home field advantage that Jack Trice Stadium gives the team is a mistake. With a 23-24 Wildcats final score, I would say the Cyclones held their own away from home.

The Big 12 Press Release for Week 5

Big 12 Football is in full swing, in this weeks Big 12 Conference press release Big 12 officials released match-up information and games to watch.

The following information came from the official Big 12 site

--Six games are on tap for Week 5. Iowa State and Kansas State meet up in
Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium in the Big 12’s second Conference game
of the season. ISU and KSU have a two-year agreement to play their 2009
and 2010 games in Kansas City. Iowa State will serve as the home team in
the first matchup.

--One Top 25 matchup is slated for Week 5 as No. 9/8 Oklahoma travels to
No. 22/21 Miami (Fla.). The Big 12 also has its second non-conference
game at Cowboys Stadium when Texas A&M takes on Arkansas. Other
games feature New Mexico at Texas Tech and Kent State at Baylor. Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Texas have the weekend off.

--All six of this week’s games will be televised with one each on ABC, ESPN,
ESPN2, FSN, FSNSW and FCS. Including Oct. 1 & 3 games, 36 of 49 season
contests to date have been telecast on some type of media platform.

Go Big 12!!

Baylor Bears are out one Star QB, but team reamins positive

The Baylor Bears Star Quarterback Robert Griffen tore his ACL last Saturday in the first quarter of the game against Northwestern State. Some critics had called Griffen, "fastest quarterback in the country" and several had noted Griffen as "the team" for the Bears.

Bears head coach, Art Briles wants to dispell this rumor. Briles said that while the loss of Griffen is sad and we all hope for a speedy recovery, the rest of the roster is strong and will pick up the slack. We’ll grow from it, and in a few months, it will be fine. It’s unfortunate that it happened, but we’ll deal with it in a positive way.”

The Baylor Bears have a game against Kent State this saturday in Waco... hopefuly the hometown crowd is enough to make up for one very injured QB!