For the 21st time in the 28-year history of the coaches' men's basketball preseason Big 12 poll, Kansas has been selected as the favorite to win the conference as the league announced preseason awards.

Some big news out of Indianapolis as the NCAA recently made a significant decision to eliminate the National Letter of Intent (NLI) program, which has been in place since 1964.

National acclaim continued to roll in for University of Houston Football junior A.J. Haulcy, as the Houston native was named the Thorpe Award National Defensive Back of the Week following his standout performance against in-state rival TCU.

Texas Tech's Jacob Rodriguez was named the Chuck Bednarik Player of the Week, the Maxwell Football Club announced. The honor recognizes the most outstanding defensive player of the week nationally – for week six of the college football season.

It's hard to believe that there was a time when SMU would get the death penalty for boosters paying recruits, Reggie Bush could have his Heisman Trophy taken away, and student-athletes were shamed, all for wanting a small sliver of the billion-dollar industry that they themselves were powering.

Back and forth they went, the two Big 12 Conference foes trading punches and setting the foundations of this newly established rivalry in their first ever meeting.

The TCU Horned Frogs faced off against the Houston Cougars Friday night, in a game that saw the Cougars snap their nine-game losing streak to TCU with a 30-19 victory.

The Big 12 Conference and its television partners have announced that the UCF-Cincinnati football game on Saturday, Oct. 12, will kick off at 3:30 p.m. on ESPN2 from FBC Mortgage Stadium.

Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson (offensive), Arizona defensive back Tacario Davis (defensive), TCU returner JP Richardson (special teams) and Cincinnati quarterback Brendan Sorsby (newcomer) won the Big 12 Conference’s weekly football awards to close out the month of September.

Utah running back Micah Bernard (offensive) and quarterback Isaac Wilson (newcomer), West Virginia spur Tyrin Bradley Jr. (defensive) plus BYU returner Parker Kingston (special teams) were selected as Big 12 award winners for the fourth week of the season.

Baylor football returns home to host BYU on Saturday at McLane Stadium, with the game set for an 11 a.m. kickoff with a telecast on FS1.

Matt Campbell now shares the top spot on Iowa State's all-time victory list.

Campbell earned his 56th victory with the 20th-ranked Cyclones in their 52-7 romp past Arkansas State at MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday, tying him with Dan McCarney for the most wins among ISU football coaches.

After earning Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors earlier this week, UCF running back RJ Harvey has been selected as the Doak Walker Award National Running Back of the Week, the organization announced.

The third set of Big 12 Conference weekly awards were earned by UCF’s RJ Harvey (offensive), Colorado’s Travis Hunter (defensive), Kansas State’s Dylan Edwards (special teams) and West Virginia’s T.J. Jackson (newcomer).

Winning is an attitude. That’s motto for the UCF athletics department this season coined by vice president and director of athletics Terry Mohajir and the football team epitomized that mindset Saturday evening, rallying from a 21-point deficit to earn a 35-34 win against TCU in its Big 12 Conference opener at Amon G. Carter Stadium.

No. 14 Kansas State showed its Wildcats are for real while sophomore Avery Johnson threw and ran his way to his best performance yet in a 31-7 win over No. 20 Arizona that gave K-State a big victory on the big stage and in front of an unrelenting crowd at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Friday night.

Playing on Friday the 13th for the first time in history, UNLV improved to 3-0 for the first time in 40 years with a come-from-behind 23-20 win at Kansas (1-2) in front of 21,493 fans at Children's Mercy Park.

They won three games just a season ago.

Through three games in 2024, in Kenny Dillingham's second year at the helm with the starting quarterback one of 60 newcomers, the Sun Devils remain unbeaten. They traded punches with Texas State at UFCU Stadium and were propelled by a steady Sam Leavitt and late heroics from the defense to emerge victorious, 31-28, on Thursday evening. It marks ASU's first 3-0 start since 2019.

UCF men’s basketball head coach Johnny Dawkins has announced that Robbie Laing and Mamadou N’Diaye have been promoted to associate head coaches.