The five years from 2010 to 2014 were not only entertaining on the field, but conference realignment affected the Big 12 conference in a big way. 2010 was the last year that all of the original Big 12 teams played in the conference. Nebraska and Colorado left after the 2010 season and Missouri and Texas A&M played their final Big 12 schedules in 2011. TCU and West Virginia joined and began playing in the league in 2012, which is the…
The Big 12 produced some classic football games from 2005 to 2009. Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma were all ranked in the top five in the country at some point during those five years. We were entertained with some great games as the league started to transition from a running league to a passing league and yardage records started to fall. Here are some of the top games of the Big 12 from 2005 to 2009. Texas Tech…
In the early 2000’s it was a great time to be a Big 12 football fan. From 2000-2004, Kansas State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado all had teams ranked in the top five at some point during those years. Add to that the fact that Oklahoma won the national championship in 2000, and it’s easy to say the Big 12 conference produced some of the best teams, had some of the best games and gave college football fans some of…
Steve Grogan was inducted as a part of the inaugural class of K-State’s Ring of Honor in 2002. One of the best quarterbacks in Kansas State history had a noteworthy and successful career in high school, college, and the NFL. I learned quite a bit about the career of Steve Grogan when putting this post together. One of the unanticipated things I learned about him is that he’s a quote machine. There are scads of Steve Grogan interviews archived…
From the dawn of the Big 12 conference, its football teams have been major players on the national stage and have played some of the most memorable games in college football history. I thought it would be fun to take a look back and rank the greatest games in conference history. Instead of listing them all in one article, I decided to do a series of articles and break it up into five-year increments starting with the 1990s. From 1996…