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Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin

It's an eventful Tuesday across the Big 12.

Dez Bryant is meeting with NCAA officials in Indianapolis, hopeful for some mercy that will allow him to play again this season. Robert Griffin is undergoing surgery, setting the stage for his return next season.

Also, there's that pretty big football game at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday. And that other one in Nebraska later in the day.

Here are some links to get you informed on all of that, and a lot more.

• Mike Gundy says he supports Dez Bryant “100 percent” as his star receiver meets with the NCAA today hoping for reinstatement this season, according to the Tulsa World’s Bill Haisten.
• The Waco Tribune-Herald’s Brice Cherry reports that Robert Griffin will undergo knee surgery today in Houston, ending his season.
• Texas players and coaches tell the Oklahoman’s John Rohde that they are happy to see Sam Bradford back in the Oklahoma starting lineup.
• Demand for tickets to the Texas-Oklahoma game is lower than normal, David Ubben of the Oklahoman reports.
• The Dallas Morning News' Chuck Carlton opines that Mack Brown's retirement is coming, but still a long way away.
• Gary Pinkel praised quarterback Blaine Gabbert as “courageous” for playing on a sprained right ankle, Vahe Gregorian of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
• Bo Pelini tells Sam McKewon of the Nebraska State Paper that he’s not ready to start awarding Blackshirts -- yet.
• Bob Stoops and Gary Pinkel both had strong words of praise for Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh, according to the Omaha World-Herald’s Lee Barfknecht. And the Topeka Capital-Journal’s Kevin Haskin writes that Suh is already being mentioned with the greatest Nebraska defensive linemen from the past.
• The Boulder Daily Camera’s Kyle Ringo wonders if Mark Mangino’s Heisman Trophy pitch for Todd Reesing is a tad premature.
• Texas Tech’s early-season woes have turned after the insertion of backup quarterback Steven Sheffield into the lineup, the Lincoln Journal Star’s Curt McKeever writes.