Tag: Big 12 Conference
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2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 26th)
GameAbove Sports Bowl: Toledo Rockets (7-5) vs Pitt Panthers (7-5) Key Facts: Bowl season hasn’t been kind to either program lately. Toledo has lost 5 of their last 6 bowls and Pitt has lost 5 of their last 7. Both teams are cold entering this game with Toledo losing their last 2 games and Pitt…
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2024 College Football Bowl Previews (Dec 17th)
Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl: Memphis Tigers (10-2) vs West Virginia Mountaineers (6-6) Key Facts: Ryan Silverfield has quietly been pretty good in bowl games he is 3-1 in them with his only loss being as the interim coach against Penn State in the 2019 Cotton Bowl, otherwise he has won 3 in a row. West…
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FBS College Football Roundup Week 5
How did we already get to week 5?? This season is flying by but with most teams in conference play things are ramping up on the field. American The headliner in the conference was Tulane’s blowout of South Florida. The Wave rolled the Bulls from start to finish in a truly dominant effort. Outside of…
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College Football Roundup Week 3
This weekend was called a bad slate by many, but you can’t ever go in with that mindset this sport always delivers. American This hasn’t been a banner OOC performance by this conference and Saturday in particular was really rough. Yes, what appears to be the top 2 teams in the conference won Memphis and…
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State of the Program: Cincinnati Bearcats
Head Coach: Scott Satterfield is entering his 2nd season as the head coach of the Bearcats with a 3-9 record. He took over the program after a coaching change in the transfer portal era while moving up to a new conference so the job wasn’t easy. Satterfield also had a successful tenure at Appalachian State…
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State of the Program: Iowa State Cyclones
Head Coach: Matt Campbell is entering his 9th season as the head coach of the Cyclones with a 53-48 record. In 2020 he led the Cyclones to the Big 12 championship game, a Fiesta Bowl victory and a Top 10 finish. It was a weird season but still one of the best in program history.…
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State of the Program: Arizona State Sun Devils
Head Coach: Kenny Dillingham is entering his 2nd year with the Sun Devils program with a 3-9 record. It was a rough first year but a huge mess was left behind for him to rebuild. It’s going to take baby steps to get this program where it should be. Program Outlook: Arizona State has always…
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State of the Program: Oklahoma State Cowboys
Head Coach: Mike Gundy is entering his 20th season as the head coach of Oklahoma State with a 166-79 record. Gundy is tied with another Big 12 coach, Kyle Whittingham for the 2nd longest tenure in College Football. He’s brought the Cowboys to multiple conference title games and won it in 2011 when they should…
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State of the Program: Texas Tech Red Raiders
Head Coach: Joey McGuire is entering his 3rd season as the head coach at Texas Tech with a 15-11 record. He rallied the fanbase pretty quickly and his first season was impressive they went 8-5 taking down Texas, Oklahoma and Ole Miss along the way. Last season had high expectations but was a disappointment now…
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State of the Program: Baylor Bears
Head Coach: Dave Aranda is entering his 5th season as the head coach of the Bears with a 23-25 record. Aranda took over at a terrible time in 2020 which made that a lost year but followed it up with possibly the best season in Baylor history, winning the Big 12 and the Sugar Bowl…
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