Berry Tramel

The 2013 Big 12 football non-conference schedules are more of the same. Some schools more than pulling their weight. Some schools standing on the side, letting others do the heavy lifting. Here are the non-conference opponents of each Big 12 school, ranked in order from toughest to easiest: 1....

In 2012, the Big 12 played four non-Saturday games: Baylor-SMU on a Sunday, Baylor-Louisiana Monroe on a Friday, Texas-TCU on Thanksgiving night and Iowa State-West Virginia on a Friday. In 2013, the Big 12 is contractually obligated to its television networks for four Thursday night games....

Let’s go back to the 2012 NFL Draft. Big 12 quarterbacks dominated the first round. The Redskins took Baylor’s Robert Griffin second. The Dolphins took Texas A&M’s Ryan Tannehill No. 8. The Browns took OSU’s Brandon Weeden 22nd. Two program-changing quarterbacks in RG3 and Weeden....

Next season, this will be Week 15. The season starts Aug. 31 (Aug. 29 for the Thursday night crowd) and ends Dec. 7. So 15 weeks of college football before the bowls instead of 14. Which is what the NFL ought to do. Use two bye weeks for every team. That would give television more inventory...

The NFL hits the post-Thanksgiving home stretch with the AFC having sorted out its contenders and pretenders, but not so in the NFC, where only four teams are more than 11/2 games out of at least the wild card race. Saints at Falcons: Atlanta 34-30. Matt Ryan quarterbacks a resilient...

Power Lunch Chat with Berry Tramel 3 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post R on Nov 30, 2012 @ 10:34 pm Interesting comments on ACC. Specifically on Maryland and Florida State. An article worth reading was printed today in...

The University of Louisville is the school that got away. The ‘Ville is joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, replacing Maryland in summer 2014, thus ending a 14-month long-distance romance between the Cardinals and the Big 12. The Big 12 picked West Virginia over Louisville in autumn 2011...

Mark Stoops has become the Kentucky football coach, and considering UK is a basketball-crazy school that just finished 2-10, with victories only over Kent State and Samford, it seems like a dead-end job. UK played only two SEC games closer than 20 points – home losses of 27-14 to Mississippi...

Sam Muzny is a former OU walkon who now lives in Prague. I’ve referenced him in blogs before. He’s a reader who occasionally writes me about interesting things, Sooner-related. And he’s done it again. I got this email last week after the Dallas-Washington Thanksgiving Day game. Muzny...

College football’s championship weekend arrives in a few days. Be still my heart. Let’s see. Wisconsin, 7-5, against 10-2 Nebraska in the Big Ten. Georgia Tech, 6-6, against 10-2 Florida State in the ACC. UCLA, 9-3, against 10-2 Stanford is a solid game – if they hadn’t played Saturday...

OU plays TCU at 11 a.m. Saturday on ESPN. OSU plays Baylor at 11 a.m. Saturday on FX. Here we go again. On Nov. 10, the Cowboys hosted West Virginia at 2:30 p.m. on ABC, and the Sooners hosted Baylor at 2:30 p.m. on Fox Sports Net. That makes for some unfortunate viewing in our state....

In the Tuesday Oklahoman, I wrote about talks for a possible bowl swap, should the Sooners end up in the Fiesta Bowl. Having been to Phoenix four times in six years, both OU fans and the Fiesta Bowl might be interested in a trade that would bring a different team to the Fiesta and give the...

The Big 12 has contracts with eight bowl games this season, and the conference sports nine bowl-eligible teams. If the Big 12 gets two teams into the BCS, all eligible Big 12 teams will be accommodated. Who are the Big 12 teams likely to face in bowl matchups? Here’s a look at the Big...

Joe DeForest spent 11 years on the OSU football staff before leaving after last season to become West Virginia’s defensive coordinator. DeForest wore three major hats for OSU. Excellent recruiter. Defensive backfield coach. Special teams coordinator. I don’t know what kind of void DeForest...

We like underdogs in American sport. We like them a lot. Cinderellas have made March Madness what it is. Boise State and its wild Fiesta Bowl win over OU was a great jolt of energy to college football. But college football power brokers don’t underdogs. And now there’s an underdog that...

Time for the final Big 12 football rankings before the seasons’ end, complete this week with how the teams were picked in preseason: 1. Kansas State (7-1, 10-1): The Wildcats were picked sixth in preseason, though I had them fourth. I missed badly. The league-wide media missed by a mile....

Before last weekend, I’d been to 40 states. I’d missed 10: Hawaii, Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and West Virginia. Strike one off that last. West Virginia’s admission to the Big 12 took me to Morgantown, W.Va., for the...

I spent last weekend on the OU-West Virginia trip and went two distinct places I’d never been. Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Worthy of two distinct travelblogs. So first, Pittsburgh. Later today or Saturday, I’ll post about West Virginia. So to get straight to the point, Pittsburgh was...

Three years ago, OU won Bedlam 27-0, and the most productive offensive player was OU punter Tress Way. Way had six punts, for a 58.8-yard average, with two downed inside the 20-yard line. Quinn Sharp wasn’t bad himself, averaging 46.9 yards on his 14 punts — that’s right, 14 punts, in a...

TCU beat Texas 20-13 on Thanksgiving Night, and it was a thorough beating. No fluke about it. So what does the verdict mean? * No more talk of Texas in the BCS. The Longhorns are 5-3 in the Big 12. Kansas State is 7-1, OU 6-1 and OSU 5-2. So the Fiesta Bowl hopefuls are KSU and OU, with OSU...