By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

The clock is ticking on the Big 12 – can it be saved? Texas A&M announced its intentions to leave the conference last week and now Oklahoma and Oklahoma State could be ready to depart the conference.

Oklahoma president David Boren had some interesting comments on Friday night, which has put the future of the Big 12 seriously in doubt.

By Steven Lassan and Mitch Light

Big 12 Week 1 Game Previews and Predictions

It's the first week of college football. Athlon will be breaking down each conference game. Here's the Big 12. 

Buckle up college football fans. Texas A&M’s decision to leave the Big 12 could spur another round of realignment.

Needless to say, with Texas A&M’s departure, the Big 12 is hanging on by a thread. The conference could survive with nine teams, but is aggressively pursuing expansion.

By Steven Lassan and Mitch Light

Texas A&M has announced its intentions to apply for membership in another conference, leaving the Big 12 with nine members at the start of the 2012 season. The conference is already looking into adding teams for next season, but the pool of candidates is thin.

Big 12 Expansion Candidates

By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

by Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)

Week 1 College Football Rankings: Big 12

By Braden Gall (@AthlonBraden) and Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven)

Athlon Sports continues its countdown to the college football season with a look at the top 40 players for 2011 in the Pac-12.

Several factors worked into the criteria for developing the 40 players: 

Each year we ask college football coaches to tell us what they really think about the other teams in their conference. But we don't want the cliche'd press conference platitudes, so we ask them to give us their quotes...anonymously. Here are this year's quotes in alphabetical order for each team in the Big 12.