The Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season.

Boise State received the fourth and final bye in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and the Big 12 on the list of power conferences with a gripe.

Utah athletic director Mark Harlan blasted the Big 12 officiating crew following BYU’s 22-21 win over the Utes for controversial calls on the Cougars’ winning drive.

Avery Johnson threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, Chris Tennant kicked a 51-yard go-ahead field goal with 1:42 to go and No. 16 Kansas State stopped Kansas on fourth down to preserve a 29-27 victory Saturday night.

UCF was a pleasant surprise in its first season in the Big 12, thanks to a stingy defense that helped the Knights finish with a winning record and receive a berth in the NIT.

Kansas is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll ahead of Alabama and two-time defending national champion UConn.

UCF Football holds its weekly press conference, this week previewing the contest with the Florida Gators.

Head Coach Gus Malzahn and players talk at UCF football's weekly press conference looking ahead to Saturday's game versus Colorado.

Garrett Greene threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Gallagher with 26 seconds left to lift West Virginia to a 32-28 victory over Kansas in their Big 12 opener Saturday.

After the first shake-up of the college football season, the Southeastern Conference grabbed six of the top seven spots in the AP Top 25, a first in the 88-year history of the rankings.

The new-look Big 12 begins play this weekend and the pressure is on to perform.

Big 12 presidents are scheduled next week to discuss potentially inviting UConn to the conference after school officials recently made an in-person pitch to the league, two people familiar with the discussions tell The Associated Press.

The Knights continue fall camp with a number of scrimmages before the first game this month.

UCF head coaches and fans gathered in downtown Orlando to look ahead to the 2024-25 seasons.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark believes the league has clearly solidified itself as one of the nation’s top three conferences.

Big 12 schools will share in a record $470 million in revenue distribution.

The Knights are coming off a 6-7 season in the first year in the Big 12 Conference.

University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion.

New West Virginia men's basketball coach Darian DeVries has brought some reinforcements from Drake.

Ibrahima Diallo had 17 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 12 seed UCF to a 77-62 victory over No. 13 Oklahoma State in the Big 12 Tournament opener Tuesday.

Conference tournaments across men's college basketball begin in earnest Tuesday and there are plenty of teams riding the NCAA tourney bubble.

Jamal Shead had 13 points, six rebounds and eight assists, Damian Dunn added 12 points and No. 1 Houston claimed the Big 12 regular-season title in its first season in the conference, dominating No. 14 Kansas 76-46 on Saturday.

Arthur Kaluma scored 23 points, Cam Carter added 21 and Kansas State beat sixth-ranked Iowa State 65-58 on Saturday.

Fox will expand its coverage of college football with a package of Friday night games.

College Football Playoff officials are considering a 14-team model that would guarantee multiple automatic bids for each of the four power conferences, starting in 2026.

Aly Khalifa had 14 points, seven assists, and seven rebounds to lead No. 25 BYU to a 78-71 victory over No. 11 Baylor on Tuesday night.

TCU was on quite a roll in coach Mark Campbell’s first season, off to a school-record 14-0 start and in the AP Top 25 poll.

Purdue is still atop the AP Top 25 but Houston has jumped Kansas into second place as the last unbeaten team in Division I men’s college basketball.

Purdue remained atop the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the third straight week while Gonzaga dropped to No. 24 after a loss to San Diego State but managed to keep alive its streak of 142 consecutive weeks in the poll.

The UCF Knights and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will clash in Tampa on Friday night in the 2023 Gasparilla Bowl.

The UCF Knights and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will clash in Tampa on Friday night in the 2023 Gasparilla Bowl.

Conference realignment and the downfall of the Pac-12 is The Associated Press Sports Story of the Year.

Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama are in the College Football Playoff.

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Tahj Brooks ran for a career-high 182 yards while powering a game-clinching drive after E’Maurion Banks blocked a potential tying extra-point kick, and Texas Tech rallied for a 24-23 victory over UCF.

Both UCF and Texas Tech come into Saturday's matchup with a chance to claim bowl eligibility.

Dillon Gabriel accounted for a school-record eight touchdowns to help No. 17 Oklahoma roll past West Virginia 59-20.

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UCF hosts its first ranked opponent this season, No. 15 Oklahoma State, in the annual Space Game.

Former AAC foes UCF and Cincinnati hope to earn the first Big 12 win in a Saturday afternoon showdown.

More than bragging rights are on the line in the final matchup between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State before Oklahoma leaves the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.

The Big 12 released four years of football opponents for its newly expanded 16-team conference, including a yearly BYU-Utah game.

UCF returns home to host West Virginia during homecoming weekend.

Penn State is still chasing elite under coach James Franklin.

UCF comes off the bye week with a date with Oklahoma in Norman, OK, on Saturday.

Oklahoma quarterback Dillon Gabriel looks forward to facing his former school.

Kansas is the preseason No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll.

Oklahoma and Texas might not be done playing each other in the Big 12 before going to the Southeastern Conference next year.

UCF is back on the road against Kansas this Saturday.

Baylor erased a 35-7 third-quarter deficit, scoring 29 unanswered points and taking the lead on a 25-yard field goal Isaiah Hankins with 1:21 left to play to beat Big 12 newcomer UCF 36-35 in the the Knights’ first conference home game.

The UCF Knights will host the first Big 12 home game in football program history against the Baylor Bears.

The Big 12's four new schools are seeing the positive effects of membership in a Power Five conference.

Jonathon Brooks ran for two touchdowns and No. 3 Texas got a dominant game from its defense to overpower Baylor in a 38-6 win Saturday night to launch the Longhorns into their final Big 12 season.

The UCF Knights kick off their inaugural Big 12 football campaign against Kansas State.

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The UCF Knights return to Orlando to play against Villanova on Saturday.

There are some heavyweight showdowns for Big 12 schools in Week 2 of the college football season.

The Big 12 Conference sprung from the old Big Eight, a bunch of entirely public and largely agricultural schools.

The Big Ten says it will require its football teams to provide an availability report of its players to the conference office no more than two hours before their games kickoff.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says his conference is done expanding, shutting down the possibility of adding UConn and Gonzaga after engaging with the basketball powerhouses on potential membership.

What's next in conference realignment.

A day after leaving behind more than a century as a tenant to the premier athletic conference on the West Coast, Washington’s leadership says stability was at the forefront of its decision to join the Big Ten Conference.

The Big 12 is adding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah as members next year, completing its raid of the Pac-12.

The Big Ten has joined the Big 12 in pushing the Pac-12 to the brink.

Pac-12 leaders were presented details of a long-awaited media rights deal Tuesday by Commissioner George Kliavkoff.

The nine remaining Pac-12 schools have been mostly quiet since Colorado announced it would leave the conference in 2024 and join the Big 12.

The University of Colorado's decision to return to the Big 12 next year is expected to be a boon to football coach Deion Sanders' recruiting efforts in Texas and Florida.

Peggy Coppom says it was a good day to be a Colorado Buffaloes fan when university regents approved the school's move back to the Big 12 next year.

Big 12 presidents and chancellors have voted unanimously to accept Colorado as a new member, clearing the way for the school to leave the Pac-12 and rejoin the conference.

July 1 marks the official day UCF joins the Big 12 conference. Read what the athletic director and some coaches are saying.

Houston was the lone No. 1 seed left in the tournament for about 30 minutes on Friday night, until its own run ended with an 89-75 loss to Miami in the Sweet 16.

Jalen Wilson had 20 points and seven rebounds for No. 1 seed and defending national champion Kansas in a 96-68 victory over Howard.

Texas Tech coach Mark Adams, who had been suspended recently for racially insensitive comments made toward his players, resigned shortly after the Red Raiders were eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday.

Damion Baugh scored a career-high 24 points, Emanuel Mille had 20 and No. 22 TCU held on to beat Texas 75-73.

There will be no Big 12 regular-season title for the Baylor women for the first time in 13 seasons.

A diversity study finds women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics.

Sir’Jabari Rice scored 21 points and Timmy Allen added 19 to send No. 10 Texas to a 76-71 win over No. 11 Baylor.

Purdue is this season's first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP men’s college basketball poll.

Avery Anderson scored 18 points, including the go-ahead free throws, and Oklahoma State defeated No. 12 Iowa State 61-59 for its first win over a ranked team this season.

Shahada Wells scored 17 points as No. 14 TCU beat No. 2 Kansas 83-60 in one of the worst losses in Bill Self’s 20-year coaching career with the Jayhawks.

No. 2 Michigan brings its smash-mouth ways into the College Football Playoff semifinal to face No. 3 TCU on Saturday.

TCU has a definite route to the College Football Playoff after its regular season-ending rout of Iowa State.

Kendre Miller ran for two touchdowns as fourth-ranked TCU completed the first undefeated regular season by a Big 12 team since 2009 with a 62-14 victory over Iowa State.

The Big 12 has reached an agreement on a six-year contract extension with ESPN and Fox worth more than $2 billion that will keep the conference’s media rights with those networks through the 2030-31 college sports seasons.

New Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark has been learning the NCAA's issues in real time during a period of sweeping change and uncertainty.

Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff says his conference is far from finished, despite the defections of Southern California and UCLA.

The Big 12 is going into its final season as a 10-team league.

The Big 12 is going with an unconventional hire for commissioner in Roc Nation executive Brett Yormark.

The American Athletic Conference has reached an agreement with Cincinnati, Houston and UCF that paves the way for the schools to join the Big 12 in 2023.

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby acknowledges the there is “some weirdness” with the conference's annual spring meetings.

The Southeastern Conference’s slogan, “It just means more,” could soon refer to the number of football games the league schedules.

The Pac-12 is scrapping its divisional format for the upcoming college football season.

Kansas senior guard Ochai Agbaji is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press Big 12 player of the year.

South Carolina is still No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll despite suffering its second loss of the season.

Bryce Thompson made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 19.4 seconds left and Oklahoma State beat No. 12 Texas Tech 52-51, eliminating the Red Raiders from the Big 12 title race.

Adam Flagler and James Akinjo each scored 19 points to send No. 3 Baylor over No. 21 Texas 68-61, as the Bears spoiled the final Longhorns men’s game in the 45-year-old Frank Erwin Center.

No. 19 Texas Tech has now beaten consecutive top-10 opponents in the Big 12.

Adam Flagler rallied No. 1 Baylor with 18 of his 22 points in the second half, and the Bears extended their national-best winning streak to 21 games with a 76-64 victory over TCU.

James Akinjo scored 16 points, LJ Cryer had 10 of his 13 in the second half, and top-ranked Baylor beat No. 8 Iowa State 77-72 for the Cyclones’ first loss.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is changing its rescheduling policy to avoid assigning forfeits for teams unable to play due to COVID-19 protocols.