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Big 12 Notebook: '05 Still Alive in Texas

The comparisons between the Texas Longhorns 2005 team and this season's team are inevitable. At this point in the 2005 season, the Vince Young-led Longhorns looked pretty invincible. After a tough early season game against Ohio State , they romped over opponents with relative ease on the way to the BCS national title....

Nebraska Not Great, But Good Enough to Contend in Big 12 North

The resemblance to the old Blackshirt defense is there, but make no mistake -- this isn't your father's Nebraska Cornhuskers. Still, in this current cycle where parity and mediocrity have met to transform the mightiest of college football programs into mere mortals, these Cornhuskers are good enough to be part of the Big...

Stoops, Snyder Resume Friendly Rivalry

There is nothing new about Bob Stoops matching coaching wits with old mentor and boss Bill Snyder. They've done plenty of that over the years in Big 12 cross-divisional play. But that doesn't mean Stoops isn't a little surprised to see Snyder, 70, back on the Wildcats sideline. The longtime Kansas State coach retired four...

Big 12 Notebook: North by North Mess

It's just three weeks into the full-swing of Big 12 play but the North Division is looking like any of the six teams could win the race. That doesn't necessarily bode well at all for the weaker half of the two-division league. Nebraska and Kansas came into the season as the presumed favorites to represent the North, but...

Nebraska's Rally Caps More Than Just Fourth Quarter

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- If Nebraska had been looking for a defining moment, that one where lip service and projections give way to real proof the program is back, perhaps the Cornhuskers found it Thursday night. Their backs were up against the wall in a major way against Missouri at Faurot Field when something miraculous...