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BIG 12 OUTLOOK: 01.09.12
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Big 12 Conference Standings (updated 1.8.2012) Conf Overall W L W L #4 Baylor Bears 2 0 15 0 Iowa State Cyclones 2 0 12 3 #10 Kansas Jayhawks 2 0 12 3 #9 Missouri Tigers 1 1 14 1 #18 Kansas State Wildcats 1 1 12 2 Texas...
RPI WATCH: 12/2/11
K-State experienced a significant RPI boost due to its quality win over George Washington, from 90 to 28. Apparently, actually playing games helps. Also significant in that increase were wins by Charleston Southern and UMES. Meanwhile, Virginia Tech and Alabama suffered disappointing Challenge...
BLOGPOLL TOP 25: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Well, missed my deadline again, but considering the BCS has rendered the last two weeks of the regular season virtually irrelevant ("Every Game Matters," my ass) and everyone's ballot is essentially the same as last week, only with an Arkansas slide downward, not sure it really matters. My Week 14...
TEN MORE Teams Want to Join the ACC: Who are they?
According to ACC Commissioner John Swofford after Pittsburgh and Syracuse joined the ACC the number of schools left that still wanted to join the ACC totaled in double digits. Let's take the lowest double digit we can think of and pin down after the jump who these other 10 teams are. In...
Conference Expansion; How Messy Can it Get?
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Big Ten Network 2011 Primetime Schedule Set to Change College Football Forever
You can't make this stuff up. Here's what BTN President Mark Silverman said of these games from the press release last Thursday: "We’re very excited about our primetime schedule and think it’s the strongest we’ve ever had. There’s always extra electricity in the air for Big Ten night games, and...
Nitt Picks Invented The Zone Blitz
Everybody is all about zone blitzing these days. If you're not zone blitzing, you're not playing defense. Now that both teams in the Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, are known as zone blitzing teams, the zone blitz is sure to be a stable in every coaching playbook in...
KNOW THY ENEMY: Iowa State Cyclones
It's time again for BOTC's "Big 12 Days of Christmas," a.k.a. my KNOW THY ENEMY series of conference opponent previews. I'll do one of these per day, in reverse order of how the teams were picked before the season by the Big 12 coaches. First up are the Iowa State Cyclones. Picked 12th in the...
KNOW THY ENEMY: Nebraska Cornhuskers
What's even more intense than Nebrasketball? Nebrasketball about to embark on its swan song through endure one last blanket party from the Big 12. Yes, payback is a bitch, and Doc Sadler's about to suffer a tenfold return on the goodwill spread by the Pelini brothers this year. Follow the jump for...
RPI WATCH: 12/02/2010
Wednesday night was a perfect storm of fecal matter for the Wildcats' RPI. The lowlight of the night was Virginia Tech's failure to capitalize on home-court advantage, a depleted Purdue team and just plain desperation in order to seize a must-win game against the Boilermakers in the ACC-Big Ten...
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