Matthew Postins

Getting the Protect College Sports Act passed before the fall recess was going to be hard. Everyone knew that. There was no surprise when Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reported on Friday that the bill was highly unlikely to get further than a cloture vote before recess.

There was a time when the Texas Tech men’s basketball roster looked perilously thin this summer. At one point, there were just nine players on the roster, including their incoming freshmen. Plus, there was JT Toppin, the top player on team who is recovering from ACL tear. Had the season started at a certain point […]

What’s going on in the Big 12 and beyond? I expand and explain every Sunday in Postscripts at Heartland College Sports, your home for independent Big 12 coverage. Five Stories I Thought About This Week I went through our site and found five stories that I thought were interesting this week and wanted to redirect […]

For every conference contender, there is always the chance of being upset. Things are no different in the Big 12 Conference. Here, we determine the most likely upset to watch for each contender in the Big 12. First order of business — who are the contenders? Fair question. The Big 12 tends to be a […]

The Arizona State Sun Devils have taken to the Big 12 in a big way since they joined the conference in 2024. That first season was a magic carpet ride as t

It’s Year 4 of Deion Sanders at Colorado, and the Buffaloes are hoping to return to the heights he took them to two years ago. The Buffs are coming off a 3-9 campaign that started with a shroud of secrecy around his health as he battled bladder cancer and beat it.

While no one wants to feel sorry for Texas Tech these days, what happened to them earlier this week is a good example of why college football non-conference scheduling no longer works. According to multiple reports, including On3, USC backed out of a pair of neutral site games being negotiated for 2027 and 2028. Tech […]

While there were several head coaching changes in the Big 12, none carry the baggage that Oklahoma State’s change does. For more than 20 years, Mike Gundy set the tone in Stillwater. The former OSU quarterback who became a Cowboys assistant coach and then head coach did things in Stillwater no one had ever done. […]

What’s going on in the Big 12 and beyond? I expand and explain every Sunday in Postscripts at Heartland College Sports, your home for independent Big 12 coverage. Four Stories I Thought About This Week I went through our site and found four stories I thought were interesting this week, and I wanted to redirect […]

The Big 12 Conference has 16 teams vying for two spots in the league’s championship game in December. Some have a better chance of reaching it than others.