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The All-Big 12 Conference football teams and individual award winners have been announced. Selections are made by the league's 10 head coaches, who are not permitted to vote for their own players. All-Big 12 Honors Notebook: --Collin Klein is the first K-State player to earn Offensive Player of the Year. --Arthur Brown is the third Wildcat to earn Defensive Player of the Year (Terrence Newman, 2002 and Mark Simoneau, 1999). --Lache Seastrunk is the first Baylor player to be named Offensive Newcomer of the Year while --Calvin Barnett is the first from Oklahoma State to garner Defensive Newcomer of the Year.

For the first time in school history, Kansas State is No. 1 in the BCS as the latest standings were unveiled Sunday night on ESPN. The Wildcats, who earned their highest-ever mark of No. 2 on October 28, are No. 1 in a college football poll for the first time since 1998 when they earned the school's first No. 1 ranking from Nov. 8-29 in the ESPN/ USA Today Coaches Poll. K-State, which was fourth in the initial BCS standings this season, moved to No. 3 on October 21 before sitting at No. 2 for the last two weeks.

Eric Stephens took the snap out of the wildcat formation, rolled to his right and threw a 3-yard jump pass to Darrin Moore for a touchdown in double overtime to lead No. 25 Texas Tech past Kansas 41-34 on Saturday. Kansas quarterback Michael Cummings couldn't connect with Tre' Parmalee in the end zone on fourth-and-9 for Kansas to end the Jayhawks chances. The Jayhawks (1-9, 0-7 Big 12) came from behind in the fourth quarter and sent the game into overtime on a 32-yard field goal by Nick Prolago with under a minute remaining in regulation.

Charlie Weis is facing a very possible 1-11 record in his first year at Kansas. He is now forced to balance respect for the seniors he inherited from former coaches and start building his own program without them. In three weeks, the seniors, who have endured three coaching changes and have only 11 victories in four years, will finish their tumultuous careers. With the majority of the depth chart still occupied by seniors, this balance becomes touchy. Weis is making a final push for them by showing them off to NFL scouts who may give them a second chance in football.

The Kansas State Wildcats (8-0, 5-0) looked good, I mean really good. The 4th-ranked 'Cats came alive in the second half against Texas Tech (6-2, 3-2), beating the Red Raiders 55  to 24 on Saturday. After struggling on offense in the first half the Wildcats scored 21 points in the third quarter to take a 41-17 lead over Texas Tech.  Collin Klein threw a gorgeous touchdown pass to Tramaine Thompson and rushed for the other two touchdowns in that third quarter. Kansas State's defense put together an incredible effort in the second half.  First Randall Evans recovered a Texas Tech fumble to set up Klein's first rushing touchdown.  Then Arthur Brown returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter..  Brown's pick-6 made it 48-17 Kansas State.

For the 11th time in 17-year history of Big 12, Kansas has earned at least a share of the designation as preseason favorite to win the Conference. The Jayhawks have been picked to win the 2012-13 Big 12 men's basketball crown in a vote of the league's head coaches after capturing their eighth-straight outright or shared regular-season title a year ago. KU will be led by seniors Jeff Withey, Elijah Johnson and Travis Releford, who were starters on the Jayhawks' squad that advanced to the 2012 NCAA Championship game.

Kansas State fans have stepped up once again to ensure that Bill Snyder Family Stadium is packed with purple for the season opener as department officials announced today that all tickets to the September 1 Family Reunion matchup with Missouri State are sold out. The capacity crowd will be the ninth at Bill Snyder Family Stadium since the 2009 season and mark the fourth straight for a season-opener after also selling out the 2009 UMASS, 2010 UCLA...

Nine national television games, including Big Monday tilts with Kansas and West Virginia, highlight the Big 12 Conference portion of the Kansas State men's basketball released on Thursday by league officials.   For the second year in a row, Big 12 teams will play an 18-game round-robin schedule, while welcoming conference newcomers TCU and West Virginia to the fold.  The Wildcats, who are coming off their sixth consecutive 20-win season and 26th NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011-12, will play home-and-home contests with all nine conference foes for just the second time since the Big Eight era.  In all, the squad will play 10 games against teams that advanced to the postseason in 2011-12, including five in Bramlage Coliseum.

Oklahoma has been picked to win the Big 12, followed by West Virginia and Texas. A preseason poll of media members who cover the league was released Thursday. Oklahoma received 32 of a possible 41 first-place votes. The Mountaineers, who beat Clemson in the Orange Bowl last season, had seven first-place votes headed into their first season in the Big 12. The Longhorns were picked third, followed by defending league champion Oklahoma State. TCU is picked to finish its first year in the league in fifth place.