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• Big 12 Conference Alive, if Not Well

  Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 12 p.m.

  Call it the Pat 12. As in, no thanks to expansion, we'll stand. As in, the Big 12 -- all but buried by a lot of us dorks -- remains alive, like the muddy, bony, cob-webbed hand reaching up from the grave to snatch onto life. Again. Because it couldn't get...

• Will This Conference Clustereff Be Good for College Football?

  Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 10 a.m.

  It's not a matter of if, but merely when. The Big 12 is kaput. When the Board of Regents at OU and Texas yesterday empowered their respective school presidents (David Boren and Williams Powers) to explore new conference affiliations, it officially signaled the beginning of the end for the Irving-based...

• No Matter Where Texas and Oklahoma Wind Up, Texas-OU Will Survive in Dallas ... or Arlington

  Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12 p.m.

  After a meeting last weekend of school power brokers -- including UT president William Powers and OU grand poobah David Boren -- it's clear that Texas-OU Weekend will survive regardless of where the Longhorns and Sooners wind up in this chaotic restructuring of conferences. According to a source familiar with...

• Thanks to Baylor's Cock-Block, Texas A&M May Wait Until 2013 to Join SEC

  Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 10:45 a.m.

  The Southern Baptist Convention has over 16 million members. It also boasts a mission statement: As a convention of churches, our missional vision is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations. Perusing their web site this...

• A&M to the SEC! Texas as an Independent?! The Big 12 and Texas-OU is Kaput?

  Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:30 a.m.

  As we speak I'm told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent. Hello, Notre Dame of the South? The plan goes thusly:...

• College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations

  Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 12 p.m.

  ​ 10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some great games (see Baylor...