2025 Big 12 Football News and Activities

[swilsonsp4]

Big news out of Provo. QB Jake Retzlaff was accused of sexual assault in the off season. While he claimed the encounter was consensual , it doesn’t matter in the eyes of the BYU honor code and he’s gone

Retzlaff isn't LDS. Maybe he didn't think BYU really meant it.

[Lobot]

Big news out of Provo. QB Jake Retzlaff was accused of sexual assault in the off season. While he claimed the encounter was consensual , it doesn’t matter in the eyes of the BYU honor code and he’s gone

[bearcatbret]

Episode 5 - Defense. From The 513: Inside the Mind of Tyson Veidt, Cincinnati’s Defensive Leader

[Lobot]

Per Brett McMurphy, the Big XII will not be doing a preseason media poll this season. Yormark didn't come out and say this but IMO last year's was so wrong that this seems like a good thing.

There will a preseason All-Big XII team though. So stay tuned

[bearcatbret]

Preseason accolades. Dontay Corleone Collects Preseason Phil Steele All-America Honors - University of Cincinnati Athletics

[bearcatbret]

Lindy Sport's take on UC. There is an embedded video of the new practice facility.

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2025/06/15/three-top-takeaways-on-lindy-sports-cincinnati-football-preview/?fbclid=IwY2xjawK_vBhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF2bE8yN3JFTDhHU2RIM1VzAR4mOadW9oxLIvhyAjETPEBCUvm5WFW55tG0QTBnyKCjCXYUV7LRG5dy3_z05A_aem_PLH7dNNyw73REScFO-YBsA

[swilsonsp4]

The B12 games during Weeks 1-3 that will appear on legacy networks are:

Week 1 -

UC vs NE, Thu, 8/28, 9:00, ESPN
GA Tech @ CO, Fri, 8/29, 8:00, ESPN
Auburn @ Baylor, Fri, 8/29, 8:00, FOX
SD @ ISU, Sat, 8/30, 3:30, FOX

Week 2 (All Sat, 9/6) -

IA @ ISU, noon, FOX
Kent State @ TTU, noon, TNT [A good portion of whatever viewership this starts out at will be gone early.]
DE @ CO, 3:30, FOX [Strictly "Prime" factor. Otherwise, his game belongs on ESPN+.]
Army @ KSU, 7:00, ESPN
Stanford @ BYU, 10:15, ESPN

Week 3 -

CO @ UH, Fri, 9/12, 7:30, ESPN
KSU @ AZ, Fri, 9/12, 9:00, FOX
Pitt @ WV, Sat, 9/13, 3:30, ESPN
OR State @ TTU, Sat, 9/13, 3:30, FOX
TX State @ ASU, Sat, 9/13, 10:30, TNT

[swilsonsp4]

UC will play both BGSU & Northwestern State at 3:30 (ESPN+) on 9/6 and 9/13, per Zach Stipe.

[GoBearcats31]

@Brett_McMurphy:

Big 12 opening 3 weeks on TNT & HBO Max. TNT & HBO Max also will broadcast 2 1st round @CFBPlayoff games this year

Aug 30: Hawaii at Arizona, 10:30 pm ET
Sept 6: Kent State at Texas Tech, noon ET
Sept 13: Texas State at Arizona State, 10:30 pm ET

[Pruke]

Vote the Bearcat into the hall of fame. The VOTE 2025 | Mascot Hall of Fame

Still don’t know why he was not in EA Sports NCAA 25 video game - shame!!!

[bearcatbret]

This AI article said that UC had an "average" off season. I would not put too much faith in it because of a few errors within the article. https://fanrecap.com/espn-ranks-cinc...JBRdQLBt8ewj5A

[bearcatbret]

Vote the Bearcat into the hall of fame. The VOTE 2025 | Mascot Hall of Fame

[bearcatbret]

UC Sports Medicine Staff named top in the Big 12. Cincinnati Named 2025 Big 12 Sports Medicine Staff of the Year - University of Cincinnati Athletics

[bearcatbret]

Below is a link to the NCAA APR. However, some of us on this forum complained over a decade ago that schools would be penalized if one of their players transferred and then did not graduate from their new school. The original school would be dinged because of that. That was back when a player had to sit out a season if they transferred, it was more difficult back then. Now that a player can compete for seven years with 5 different schools, how is this even tracked back to the first or even second college? I leave this to the all-knowing, great wizard known as Lobot. Huggins was always getting bashed because of his APR because so many of those players left the program and never graduated.
Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) - NCAA.org

[swilsonsp4]

With an entire basketball team leaving in the transfer portal or going pro, how do those teams continue to make the tournament? Same way with the football portal. Half of the players never find another team. How do they count against their previous school? Players in all sports are bouncing around so much it has to be nearly impossible to maintain the APR. I am just confused at how and when the NCAA will enforce it. Akron is an easy target but how about Duke in basketball or Bama in football?

The NCAA does have a formula to take this into account, but I don't know what it is.