WACO — Gerry Bohanon threw two touchdowns and ran for another, and Baylor stopped a 2-point try with 24 seconds left to beat No. 14 Iowa State 31-29 on Saturday.
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AUSTIN — Casey Thompson is driving the Texas offense into the Big 12 and Longhorns are looking like a steamroller — a very fast steamroller.
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FORT WORTH — Tanner Mordecai added to his nation-leading total in touchdown passes with four more and SMU overcame his three interceptions in a 42-34 victory over TCU on Saturday in the 100th meeting of the Dallas-Fort Worth rivals.
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The Big 12 is no longer considered a prolific passing league, replaced for now by a wave of ground attacks that are producing plenty of individual stars.
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The most experienced quarterbacks in the Big 12 have already been sidelined this season for very different reasons.
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Kansas State coach Chris Klieman says he was never worried the Big 12 would disband or become irrelevant, even with the lingering questions about the conference’s future when Oklahoma and Texas head to the Southeastern Conference.
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The Big 12 survived college football’s last significant conference realignment a decade ago because the league still had Texas and Oklahoma.
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AUSTIN — Hudson Card was solid, and occasionally great, in his first career start Saturday as the Texas quarterback.
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AUSTIN — New Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday that his starting quarterback for this weekend’s season opener against No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette will be Hudson Card, who has one career pass completion.
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Dave Aranda became Baylor’s football coach about 19 months ago knowing that NCAA penalties were coming for a scandal that embroiled the program long before he arrived.
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WACO — The NCAA said Wednesday that its long investigation of the Baylor sexual assault scandal resulted in nothing more than probation and other relatively minor sanctions because the egregious, “unacceptable” behavior at the heart of the case did not violate its rules.
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Southeastern Conference university presidents voted Thursday to invite Texas and Oklahoma to the league and create a 16-team powerhouse on the field and at the bank.
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Former Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez lived through the tidal wave of conference realignment that swept over college sports in the early 2010s, watching the Big Ten grow to 14 teams from the Midwest to the East Coast.
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ARLINGTON — Texas fans want more than top 10 rankings and bowl victories. They would like the team to win some Big 12 titles and be in contention for national championships.
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ARLINGTON — Baylor linebacker Terrel Bernard was the Big 12’s leading tackler, with 55 tackles through five games last season, before he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury.
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ARLINGTON — The Big 12 Conference would certainly benefit from an expanded College Football Playoff and likely never be left out again.
ARLINGTON — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Wednesday the league is doing everything it can to encourage vaccinations for all of its athletes, though the conference won’t mandate shots for the coronavirus.
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OMAHA, Neb. — Texas is making its record 37th appearance in the College World Series and, unlike the last time the Longhorns were here in 2018, coach David Pierce believes this team has the makings to be the national champion.
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LUBBOCK — Brock Jones hit three home runs, Alex Williams pitched a shutout, and No. 9 seed Stanford advanced to the College World Series with a 9-0 win over No. 8 seed Texas Tech on Saturday to finish a sweep of their super regional series.
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Arkansas was rewarded Monday for its dominant run through the Southeastern Conference, landing the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament.
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The Texas Longhorns found a way to cool down TCU and make sure the Big 12 Conference race goes down to the final weekend.
The Longhorns (38-12, 15-6 Big 12) closed out the series win with a 9-3 victory Sunday in a showdown of top-10 teams in Fort Worth. They’re still a game behind the Horned Frogs (34-12, 16-5), who have been one of the nation’s hottest teams.
