(by David Ubben) Welcome to game week. It feels good to be here. Finally. Everybody's excited and everybody's undefeated.

Iowa State will start things off for us on Thursday night, but the season won't feel like it's truly begun until Saturday morning's first kickoff -- scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET between Missouri and Illinois in St. Louis.

Here's a few guesses, of the educated variety, on what the conference landscape will look like in December....read more from the ESPN Big 12 Blog