Each morning, Longhorns Wire scours the web for the top Big 12 headlines that are happening around the conference. Today’s stories are courtesy of 247Sports, CBS Sports and 1340 AM in Lubbock, Texas.

Ranking Power 5 Conferences doesn’t do Big 12 any favors

R.J. Young of OU Insider ranked all five power conferences.

Now the math says it’s the SEC’s world, and we just live in it. The ACC thrives in it, and the Pac-12’s one shining moment is present in it. But as for the Big 12 just check College Football Playoff brackets.

The Big 12 is the only Power 5 conference without a representative in the national title game in the Playoff era—ever. There’s only one from it anyway.

And that’s how we do the math. That’s how we got here. The conference power rankings go SEC 1, ACC 2, Big Ten 3, Pac-12 4 and then the Big 12 I fear.

But as we’ve said in Norman for 20 years, wait until next year.

2020 college football schedule news: SEC, ACC, Big 12 in limbo as SWAC latest to cancel fall season

CBS Sports writers David Cobb and Ben Kercheval breakdown what the cancellation of the SWAC football season means for the remaining power conferences. The Big 12, ACC and SEC who have yet to cancelled their non-conference games.

While the nation continues grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, college conferences across the country are in the process of deciding how they will approach the fall sports season — if they play games at all. The Big Ten and Pac-12 have taken the most drastic measures of any of the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) conferences so far by limiting their teams to league play this fall.

Announcements are expected this month from the other three Power Five leagues on whether they will follow suit or perhaps come up with a different scheduling philosophy. At lower divisions, some leagues have canceled all fall competition while others are planning to proceed as scheduled, at least for now.

Big 12 Conference

The Big 12 has not made an announcement about its plans and appears to be taking the same wait-and-see approach as the SEC and ACC. It is believed that — due in part to nonconference games between the leagues — the three conferences will come to a decision together about scheduling. League commissioner Bob Bowlsby told Dodd “it’s a little early” to make a decision about playing a conference-only schedule, though the league has a model ready to go should it head in that direction at some point. Big 12 athletic directors met with Bowlsby on Tuesday.

Texas Tech Football Loses a Second Non-Conference Opponent

Rob Breaux of 1340 AM in Lubbock, Texas is reporting that the Red Raiders have no home games in their non-conference schedule. Alabama State is the latest to cancel as part of the SWAC.

When the Pac 12 announced last week that they would be moving to a conference only schedule last week the Red Raiders lost a home game against Arizona. Today the SWAC moved their football season to the spring semester, canceling another Texas Tech home game against Alabama State.

If the Texas Tech football schedule stands as is there will be no non-conference football at Jones Stadium. The third and final non-conference game on the schedule is UTEP.