Big 12’s Fate Rests With Oklahoma & Texas
DALLAS (AP) – Over the past dozen years, Oklahoma and Texas have teamed up to turn the Big 12 into one of the nation’s foremost college conferences, winning two national championships and playing for...
View ArticleSuperconferences Still On Hold As Pac-12 Stays Put
NEW YORK (AP) – The seismic shift in college athletics has once again been diverted. Unless there is a major surprise looming, the latest round of conference realignment will only produce a handful of...
View ArticleOklahoma State Gives Prez Power To Change Leagues
STILLWATER, OK (AP) Oklahoma State’s governing board has granted university president Burns Hargis the power to move the school’s teams to a different conference. Hargis says Wednesday’s move was...
View ArticleCalifornia, Texas To Play In Holiday Bowl
SAN DIEGO (AP) – It seemed inevitable that if Texas and California kept showing up at the Holiday Bowl, they’d eventually play each other. The Longhorns and Golden Bears will play in the Holiday Bowl...
View ArticlePac-12 Or Big 12 Could Face Best Of Rest
DALLAS (AP) – A tentative plan for the new college football postseason calls for a Pac-12 or Big 12 team to face the best team from a group of five conferences, including the Big East. A person with...
View ArticleFiesta Bowl Gets Prime Matchup Of Kansas State, Oregon
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AP) — Kansas State and Oregon were in perfect position at the start of Nov. 17, Nos. 1 and 2 in the BCS standings, seemingly on a crash course toward the national championship game. By...
View ArticleRothstein Files: Previewing The 9 Major Conference Tourneys With Predictions
By Jon Rothstein » More Columns ACC FAVORITE: Duke CHALLENGER: Miami SLEEPER: NC State QUARTERFINAL GAME I’D PAY TO SEE: Virginia-NC State TITLE GAME PREDICTION: Duke over Miami THE SKINNY: We’d be...
View ArticleHowland Holds News Conference To Thank UCLA Players, Staff
WESTWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Ousted UCLA basketball coach Ben Howland, who was fired two days after the Bruins were eliminated from this year’s NCAA tournament, held a news conference Monday afternoon....
View ArticleAlamo Bowl Promoted To Top Big 12 Contest
Johnathan Gray of the Texas Longhorns scores on Rueben Robinson of the Oregon State Beavers during the Valero Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome on December 29, 2012 in San Antonio, Texas. Texas won the game...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Get To Know That Other Quarterback In Oregon, Sean Mannion
By Kevin McGuire There is a quarterback playing college football in the state of Oregon that is currently leading the nation in passing yards, touchdowns and passing yards per game. He also leads the...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: The Week We Have All Been Waiting For
By Kevin McGuire (Credit, Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images) This is the week college football fans have had circled on the calendar for quite some time. This is the week that will begin to truly shape the...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: LSU’s Mettenberger Looks To Make Dent In Race Vs. Alabama
We are coming down the final stretch of the college football season, which means the Heisman Trophy race is starting to wind down as well. While there appears to be some clear favorites in the...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Boston College’s Andre Williams Rushes In To The Mix
By Kevin McGuire The past few weeks of the college football season have seen a number of strong Heisman Trophy candidates stumble in one way or another. This late into the season brings an unfamiliar...
View ArticlePower Conferences Seeking More Autonomy In NCAA
NEW YORK (AP) – The five power conferences of college sports want more flexibility in providing financial support to athletes. A major reason they lack that freedom in the first place is other NCAA...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: 10 Thoughts For The 2014 College Football Season
By Kevin McGuire Forget everything you ever knew about college football, well, maybe not everything. The chase for one of the four playoff spots begins this weekend with a handful of high-profile games...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: Big Ten Reputation On The Line For Michigan State
(Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images) The Big Ten had an opportunity to make a statement in the opening weekend of the college football season, but Wisconsin let a 24-7 lead slip away against LSU in...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: You Cannot Script Drama As Good As This
No matter how much hype you bought into for the week six schedule in college football, nobody could have seen the week playing out with as much drama as it did. The state of Mississippi is suddenly the...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: Get Ready To Debate One-Loss Playoff Contenders
We may not know much about what will happen with the College Football Playoff, but we do know at least two spots are going to be filled by teams with at least one loss. With no more undefeated teams in...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: TCU’s Trevone Boykin This Year’s Hidden Gem
Every season, the Heisman Trophy race seems to have a challenger emerge out of nowhere. Early on it looked as though Texas A&M quarterback Kenny Hill would be that star out of nowhere, but as the...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: Big Games In November Separate Contenders From...
Before the college football season kicked off, one weekend most college football fans from around the country had circled was this weekend. With the College Football Playoff race on from coast to...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Auburn QB Nick Marshall’s Campaign Fueled By Road Victories
With November now upon us in the college football season, the search continues to determine a frontrunner in the Heisman Trophy race. Usually by now we have a pretty good idea of which player will be...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: Conference And Division Championship Races Come...
College football’s regular season is coming down the final stretch, which means it is crunch time in the conference and division championship races. Not every team is playing for a spot in the College...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: J.T. Barrett Has Led Ohio State’s Resurrection As Playoff...
Before the start of the college football season, it looked as though Ohio State would be in playoff-or-bust mode from the start with a top candidate for the Heisman Trophy leading the offense. Many...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: A Time To Be Thankful For Rivalries
With Thanksgiving upon us, we should all take some time to think about what we are thankful for. This includes college football fans, who have plenty to be thankful for this week. Not only do we have...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Mariota And Gordon Leading The Race Down Final Stretch
The final weeks of the college football season are here, and the Heisman Trophy race is coming down to the wire. By this point in the season, we have seen some top contenders rise from the rest of the...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: The Playoff Begins Now
The College Football Playoff will determine college football’s first national champion in the new playoff model in January, but the real playoff begins this weekend. The conference championship games...
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Conference Championship Games Set Stage For Big Moments From...
With the college football season ready to wrap up this weekend (with the exception of the annual Army-Navy game next week), the Heisman Trophy race is also coming to a close. Next week the finalists...
View ArticleCollege Football Bowl Breakdown: Top Games Not In ‘New Year’s Six’
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter With nearly 40 bowl games looming, it can be difficult finding those postseason gems. The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinals in the College Football Playoff are...
View ArticleCollege Football Spotlight: How The Big 12 Can Join The Playoff Next Year
The stage is now set for the first College Football Playoff, and it is going to be fantastic. Alabama, champions of the SEC, will battle Big Ten champion Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl in one semifinal....
View ArticleHeisman Watch: Oregon’s Marcus Mariota Will Win 2014 Heisman Trophy
Later this week the Heisman Trophy will add one new member to the most exclusive fraternity in sports. It is widely expected that Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota will hear his name announced as the...
View ArticleBig 12 Teams Will Have To Face ‘Power-5’ Team
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter IRVING (AP) – Big 12 football teams will now be required to play at least one non-conference game against a team from one of the other Power Five leagues. The Big...
View ArticleSEC, ACC, Pac-12 Test Collaborative Replay
Follow The Fan: Facebook | Twitter GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – It’s a football Saturday at the Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters, and Michael Strickland sits in a windowless room scanning a wall of...
View ArticlePower 5 Conferences Vote To Stop Spring Practices Off Campus
Follow The Fan: Facebook | Twitter NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – The Power Five conferences have voted to stop coaches from taking teams off-campus during any vacation period outside a sport’s season for...
View ArticleTrump Wonders If UCLA Players Will Thank Him For Their Release
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump says three UCLA players detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting wouldn’t have returned home Tuesday if it wasn’t for him. Freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Jalen...
View ArticleMike Leach New Head Coach At Washington State
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP/CBSDFW.com) – Mike Leach is taking his pirate flag to the Pacific Northwest as the new head coach of the Washington State Cougars. Leach replaces Paul Wulff, who was fired Tuesday...
View ArticleWashington Announces Its Return To Ranks Of College Football’s Elite
Ryan Mayer You may not remember it, but there was a time when the Washington Huskies were a college football power. During the ’80s and ’90s, under Don James, the Huskies had a run of 18-straight...
View ArticleCollege Football Conference Championship Games Preview
Ryan Mayer Following a thrilling thirteen weeks of college football action, the playoff picture still hasn’t fully taken shape. Seemingly the only sure-fire playoff team is No. 1 Alabama who rolled (no...
View Article5 Things: Automatic Bids To Big Dance
By Matt Citak The calendar has flipped to March, which means we are just days away from the most exciting time of the year — March Madness. Thirteen conferences have already settled their tournaments,...
View ArticleAs Big 12 Remains Silent, Big Ten And Pac 12 Are Reportedly Canceling Their...
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) — When asked about the upcoming college football season Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told CBS Sports on Sunday night, “It’s an ongoing conversation we’ve been having for...
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