FRISCO, Texas — It’s that time of year when every college football coach is optimistic. Nobody has lost a game yet. And everyone still has hopes of a conference championship.
The Big 12 kicked off the season with two media days held at The Star in Frisco, Texas, headquarters of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. Eight coaches and selected players talked about their teams on July 8, with the other eight teams following suit the next day.
The start of the regular season is five or so weeks away. Here are the storylines to follow as the Big 12 football season unfolds.
The Sun Devils were the ultimate Cinderella story last season, emerging as conference champions despite being picked to finish last in the preseason poll, which led to the elimination of such polls.
Battering ram running back Cam Skattebo has moved to the NFL, but 16 starters and one specialist are returning, so much will be expected. The Sun Devils are not the gutty little underdog any longer. How will they play when the pressure is on them?
Repeating is not an easy task, particularly in a conference where there is parity. Oklahoma, which has since departed for the SEC, is the only team to repeat as outright conference champion, having done so on multiple occasions, most recently in 2019 and 2020.
What will Colorado look like?
Perhaps no team will look more different this season than Colorado. Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter is in the NFL. Quarterback Shedeur Sanders and his brother Shiloh have also gone. Colorado, 9-4 in 2024, returns only three starters on offense but eight on defense.
Coach Deion Sanders’ health issues have kept him home in Texas rather than in Colorado, where he was contractually obligated to conduct youth camps.
Colorado also faces one of the toughest schedules in the conference; last season, it had one of the easiest.
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Publish date : 2025-07-09 19:13:00
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