No. 13 BYU picked up a 38-35 win over Oklahoma State in a back-and-forth, down-to-the-wire Big 12 contest at Lavell Edwards Stadium Friday night, thanks to a final-minute 75-yard touchdown drive.

The Cincinnati football team returns to Historic Nippert Stadium for the first time in nearly a month to host Arizona State on Homecoming at 12 p.m. on Saturday.

Oklahoma State hits the road to face No. 13 BYU in the fifth week of conference play at 9:15 p.m. on ESPN on Friday.

Bad news out of Tempe with the announcement that Arizona State starting quarterback Sam Leavitt will not be available for the upcoming game against Cincinnati due to a rib injury he sustained during the Sun Devils' recent win over Utah.

The Arizona State duo of Cam Skattebo (offensive) and Caleb McCullough (defensive), Cincinnati's Jake Golday (newcomer) and Utah's Cole Becker (special teams) claimed the Big 12 Conference's weekly awards.

It came down to the last possession, but at the final whistle UCF came up a few plays short as the Knights fell to Cincinnati, 19-13, Saturday evening at FBC Mortgage Stadium. After the UCF defense forced a punt with 58 seconds remaining, the Black and Gold drove the ball down to the 25-yard line before a sack ended the game and gave the Bearcats the road win.

Cam Skattebo rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns, while Caleb McCullough added 12 tackles and two interceptions as Sun Devil Football upset No. 16 Utah 27-19 on Friday night at Mountain America Stadium.

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.