Tag: Non conference schedule

Each morning Longhorns Wire shares the top stories from around the Big 12 Conference. Here are today’s top articles provided by Athlon Sports, Pokes Report and Sooners Wire.

Big 12 Football: Ranking the Toughest Non-Conference Schedules in 2020

Before conference play begins for the Big 12, each of the 10 teams will play three non-conference games. Athlon Sports ranked each conference team in order, based on the difficulty of their non-conference schedule.

In general, Big 12 teams don’t have a reputation for scheduling aggressively. The upcoming season puts that perception to the test.

All 10 teams have at least one Power 5 opponent lined up. (Yes, even Baylor.) Road trips by Big 12 teams to places like Baton Rouge, West Point and Berkeley dot the calendar. A couple of programs have set up high-profile games at neutral sites to start the year.

Assuming the teams are playing, it all sets up for a fun September around the league.

Here are the full rankings:

• Texas
• Oklahoma
• West Virginia
• Iowa State
• TCU
• Baylor
• Texas Tech
• Kansas State
• Kansas
• Oklahoma State

Oklahoma football commit, Texas player get into Twitter fight

On July 4, Oklahoma received a commitment from Austin native, Latrell McCutchin. A four-star cornerback, he and a couple of Texas players began a Twitter beef, as our colleagues at SoonersWire wrote about.

The trash talk began early for Oklahoma commit Latrell McCutchin.

Ranked a four-star recruit and the No. 66 player in the nation by Rivals, the cornerback committed to Oklahoma over Alabama on July 4. His commitment marked the first of two big recruiting wins for head coach Lincoln Riley last Saturday.

McCutchin began his Oklahoma career early, tweeting “Texas SUCKS!!! Ahhhh, felt good to say that,” just two days after his commitment. 

Colin Shields Sure Would Like to Play QB at Oklahoma State, but Will Likely End Up Somewhere Else

Colin Shields would likely sit behind Spencer Sanders on the Oklahoma State depth chart and other top quarterback prospects. Pokes Report on Sports Illustrated discussed how he will likely need to commit elsewhere to play immediately.

He said he would like to play for Cowboys, but he knows the situation and the line of quarterbacks that are there. He has other options, but did say Oklahoma State was really the only school that he would consider a preferred walk-on invitation.

He’ll be worth watching this season. His video looks good and he was one of the sharpest and most accurate quarterbacks that we saw in Shawnee on July 8.