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(by Jimmy Burch) Children of the Corn, your harvest awaits. Brigham Young fans, don't hold your breath waiting for a Big 12 invitation unless you can secure a higher-profile expansion partner.

Let those sentences serve as responses to two of the biggest unanswered questions hanging over this Big 12 football season: Who will win the 2010 championship? And, the follow-up: What will happen once Nebraska bolts for the Big Ten after the Cornhuskers prevail in this year's conference championship game at Cowboys Stadium?....read more from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

(by John Helsey & Jake Trotter) Pat Jones knew he had something special in Charles Crawford.

Arizona State, the first foe for Jones' Cowboys in 1984, had no clue.

Oklahoma State returned an All-Big Eight runner in Shawn Jones for the '84 season opener, yet Pat Jones wasted little time in getting a game-day look at Crawford, inserting him early against the Sun Devils, who had been pegged as the nation's No. 1 team by Sport Magazine....read more from The Oklahoman

(by David Ubben) Tomorrow means predictions, but you might want to bookmark this post to get ready for this weekend's games in front of the TV. But just because I'm not doing it doesn't mean you can't. Let's hear your predictions for Week 1 in the comments.

Here's who's playing who when, where and on what channel this week....read more from the ESPN Big 12 Blog

(by Matt Hinton) Unexpectedly good news today for Big Ten traditionalists worried that the conference's expansion to 12 teams next year threatened the sanctity of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry in its traditional guise: The Buckeyes and Wolverines are expected to continue playing in the regular season finale after the league splits into two divisions, according to Detroit radio reporter Doug Karsch, preserving the 75-year run of "The Game" at the end of the schedule.

Now, the bad news for those of you who (like me) argued that preserving the rivalry also meant keeping OSU and Michigan in the same division: They're splitting them up....read more from Yahoo Sports/Rivals

(by Matt Hinton) For the second year in a row, Nike will meet the formidable demands of both the 21st Century gladiator/athlete and its own stockholders with an alternative "system of dress" for 10 select schools, unveiled this morning in a Manhattan fashion show MC'd by ESPN mainstay Chris Fowler and featuring ex-Miami great Michael Irvin committing roughly 20 NCAA violations during his presentation of the 'Canes' alternative look. Each school (Alabama, Boise State, Florida, Miami, Ohio State, Oregon State, Pittsburgh, TCU, Virginia Tech and West Virginia) will debut the duds in a big game, some of them against a traditional rival....read more from Yahoo Sports/Rivals

(by Tim Gardner) The first game of the college football season is tomorrow. But keep an eye on these 13 games as the national championship puzzle comes together....read more from USA Today

(by Andy Katz) Brigham Young University will leave the Mountain West Conference for the 2011-12 season, go independent in football and join the West Coast Conference in all other sports, most notably men's basketball.

The WCC confirmed the addition of BYU effective June 30, 2011, on Tuesday but said neither it nor BYU would comment until a news conference scheduled for Wednesday.

BYU had originally agreed to go to the Western Athletic Conference in all sports and go independent in football before the MWC squelched the move by inviting WAC members Fresno State and Nevada two weeks ago....read more from ESPN

Related:

• Mountain West Conference official site: MWC Official Statement on BYU Departure

(by Thayer Evans) Top-ranked Alabama will be without star running back Mark Ingram during its season opener Saturday night against San Jose State after he injured his left knee Monday during practice.

Ingram, a junior, who rushed for 1,658 yards and 17 touchdowns last season while becoming the Crimson Tide’s first Heisman Trophy winner, had an “arthroscopic procedure” Tuesday morning, according to statement released by Alabama coach Nick Saban.

“It was a situation where everyone involved thought it would be better to take care of now, so he would not have any issues with it later in the season,” Saban said....read more from Fox Sports

Texas coach Mack Brown told The Dan Patrick Show that he believes Vince Young deserves the 2005 Heisman Trophy won by Reggie Bush.

"I think you have to go back and really give that choice to the Heisman Trust. If they take it away, I think Vince should be awarded the trophy . . . Vince was second in the voting, so even if they re-voted I would like to see Vince get it," the Longhorns football coach told Dan Patrick....read more from The Dallas Morning News

(by John Klein) Look for Texas to run the ball more when the Longhorns open the season this week against Rice at Houston's Reliant Stadium.

The Longhorns had trouble running the ball last year.

"We want to go back to being more balanced like we were when we got here," said Texas coach Mack Brown....read more from the Tulsa World

More from the Tulsa World:

• John Klein's Big 12 rankings

(by The Hurricanes hold the record for most consecutive years with a first-round pick. The record was set over the course of 14 drafts from 1995-2008. Some notable recent alumni include LB Jon Beason, RB Frank Gore, WR Devin Hester, S Sean Taylor, WR Andre Johnson, S Ed Reed, TE Jeremy Shockey, LB Ray Lewis, and RB Clinton Portis.

[snip] There aren’t many college football coaches who can make the claim that they sent three top five picks to the NFL during their career. Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops was able to accomplish that feat in one single draft....read more from NFL News Updates

(by Berry Tramel) This is one of my favorite weeks of the year. College football is back.

Games in Norman and Stillwater on Saturday night. Games on television Thursday through Monday. I know I harp a lot on the mismatches of September (Ohio State-Marshall, Florida-Miami (Ohio), Texas-Rice, OU-Utah State, I can go on all day), but there also are a good number of watchable games.

Thursday night, Southern Miss at South Carolina (Larry Fedora U. at Steve Spurrier State), Pitt at Utah in a Fiesta Bowl rematch from six years ago and USC at Hawaii (Lane Kiffin goes to the beach)....read more from The Oklahoman

(by J. Robert Byrom) Another conference realignment article starts off with a joke about how the Big 12 has 10 teams, the Big Ten has 12, and the Pac 10 has become the 12 Pac.

As lame as it is, it is truly the best way to start this article.

Let's face it, the numbers do not add up anymore. Having a number in the conference name is as about as shortsighted as drive-up ATMs with braille on the buttons....read more from SoonersNews.com

(by Henry J. Cordes) Harvey Perlman was driving north on Interstate 29 out of Kansas City, somewhere around Mound City, Mo., when he got on the phone with Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor had just endured two days of grilling from his Big 12 peers and now faced an ultimatum: You have a week to let us know whether Nebraska is committed to the Big 12.

So Perlman essentially told Delany it was late in the fourth quarter. Regardless of the Big Ten's time frame for expansion, if it wanted Nebraska, it needed to act now....read more from the Omaha World-Herald......H/T @davidubben