Big 12 Mailbag: ESPN Selling CFP Games, Softball Growing in Popularity, Plus Drama in the League

About this episode

Pete Mundo discusses the latest Big 12 and college sports stories, including ESPN's sale of CFP games and the rising popularity of college softball.

In this Big 12 mailbag episode, Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo runs down the top Big 12, college football and other top college sports stories of the week, plus your mailbag questions! 0:00 Intro 0:30 ESPN Selling CFP Games? 5:45 College Softball is On Fire 11:00 Will Texas Tech ever Play Texas again in football? 17:31 2027 Recruiting Question 21:37 Brendan Sorsby's Latest 24:01 Breaking News ON the Show Subscribe for more BIG 12 coverage! 📩 Join the FREE Heartland College Sports newsletter: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/2013905/1964875/ 💬 Join the FREE HCS Forums: https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/members-forum/ Heartland merch here: https://hcs.myswaggymerch.com/#!/ Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

People in this episode

Host: Pete Mundo

Topics covered

• Big 12
• college football
• college sports
• softball
• recruiting
• ESPN
• Texas Tech

Keywords

• Big 12
• college football
• softball
• ESPN
• Texas Tech
• recruiting
• Brendan Sorsby

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ESPN, Texas Tech, Texas

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