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College Football Live's panel of experts breaks down Oklahoma's weaknesses and strengths.

College Football Live's panel of experts preview TCU's first season in the Big 12.

Rachel Nichols breaks down the chances that the Dolphins use their first-round pick, No. 8 overall, on Texas A&M quarterback Ryan Tannehill.

SMU's visit to Baylor, which opens the college football season for both, will happen a day later than scheduled to accommodate national TV.

The non-conference game will instead take place at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 2 and will be aired on FSN.

In addition, Baylor's road opener at Louisiana-Monroe switches to 7 p.m. Sept. 21 and will be carried by either ESPN or ESPN2. The game was originally scheduled for Sept. 22.

SMU ended last season with a 28-6 victory over Pitt in the BBVA Compass Bowl. Baylor won a barnburner over Washington in the Valero Alamo Bowl, 67-56.

The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl returns to Fort Worth in 2012 as a lead-in game on Saturday, Dec. 29.

The game was played at at SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium the last two seasons because of the $143 million renovations to TCU's Amon G. Carter Stadium. It drew a game-record 36,742 fans in 2010, when Army defeated SMU on its home turf, 16-14. BYU rallied over Tulsa for a 24-21 victory in last year's edition.

ESPN and ESPN Radio will air the game, with kickoff set for 10:45 a.m. CT.

"We are very pleased to have our 10th anniversary game featured on ESPN as the Saturday lead into other bowl games," bowl executive director Brant B. Ringler said. "We also look forward to continuing our great relationship with TCU after staging several highly successful events at Amon G. Carter Stadium for the first seven years of the bowl game."

Ticket information will be released through the Armed Forces Bowl website. Capacity at the renovated Amon G. Carter Stadium will be approximately 45,000.

Josina Anderson recaps Oklahoma State's pro day, where Justin Blackmon and Brandon Weeden practiced in front of NFL scouts.

North Texas's football team will appear either on ESPN or ESPN2 for a midweek contest against Louisiana-Lafeyette on Oct. 16 at Apogee Stadium.

UNT, which released its 2012 football schedule Thursday, opens the season Sept. 1 at national runner-up LSU. The Mean Green's home opener comes a week later against Texas Southern. Road games against Kansas State and Houston round out the schedule.

Troy's visit Sept. 22 marks the start of UNT's Sun Belt slate. With the addition of South Alabama to the conference schedule, the Mean Green will not play Florida International in 2012.

Five of UNT's 12 opponents played in bowl games last season.

The ESPN date against ULL gives UNT an opportunity to feature Apogee Stadium on a national stage. The facility opened last September, replacing Fouts Field.

Robert Griffin III stops ESPN Radio and calls out Todd McShay for being scouted as a wide receiver last year instead of a quarterback.

New Texas A&M defensive coordinator Mark Snyder dishes on Kevin Sumlin's first recruiting class and the style of defense he plans to implement as the Aggies head to the SEC.

 

ESPN Senior National Recruiting Analyst Tom Luginbill breaks down the Longhorns' recruiting class.

ESPN Senior National Recruiting Analyst Tom Luginbill breaks down the Sooners' recruiting class.

AUSTIN, Texas - - ESPNU 150 athlete Daje Johnson (Pflugerville, Texas/Hendrickson) has finally committed to the Longhorns.

Johnson, the No. 14 athlete and No. 141 player overall, was offered a scholarship by Texas during his official visit on Saturday and accepted on the spot. In doing so, he became the 25th member of its 2012 class and the 18th with at least a four-star grade.

There appeared to at least be a chance of that happening when he scheduled his official visit to Austin last week. Johnson has always liked the Longhorns and even made the initial effort to see if they had any interest in him by asking Texas coach Mack Brown via text early during the 2011 season.

Then there didn't seem to be much a shot at all after he canceled his visit on Monday.

At that time, Johnson said that Texas had simply waited too long to get in the race and he had every intention on sticking with his commitment to TCU, where he had been committed since March 26.

But Texas stayed persistent. On Tuesday, Johnson received a phone call from Longhorns co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite and a Facebook message from Mack Brown. That was enough to get Johnson to reschedule his visit for this weekend.

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AUSTIN, Texas -- Peter Jinkens was engaged in a serious battle, 140 characters at a time. It was late at night on Jan. 18, and his Twitter account was on fire.

The online brawl appeared to be over a girl, one whom he's not too fond of anymore. The profanity-laced attacks flowed from his @SUMBODYSTOP_7 account and onto the timelines of friends and fans, rivals and reporters.

Once Jinkens cooled off, he saw the error of his ways and said sorry to his 650-plus followers.

"I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR MY TWEETS AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD I WILL SHOW RESPECT AND HONOR FOR THE LONGHORN NAME…..HOOK'EM \m/"

And, more importantly:

"please dont tell mack brown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

On Wednesday, Jinkens will sign his letter of intent and officially become a Longhorn. Once he arrives on campus, though, the four-star linebacker from Dallas Skyline High won't have to worry about anyone tattling to his new head coach.

Brown can walk across the Texas football office and find out for himself. His staffers already receive emails alerting them to inappropriate tweets and Facebook posts made by UT football players.

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Stepping onto a college campus for the first time can be pretty intimidating, especially if you're going to a school where you don't know a single person.

Oklahoma quarterback commit Trevor Knight (San Antonio/Reagan) knew that and wanted to help ease that transition. And before he'll ever be considered a leader on the field, Knight already has become a leader for the 2012 recruiting class.

Knight committed to Texas A&M last spring before switching to the Sooners in July. Not long after, Knight took the first of several steps he has made to show what a natural leader he is.

Knight wanted to find a way to get in touch with his future teammates and had just the way. He created an invite-only Facebook page for all the Sooners' commits in the Class of 2012.
"I started the page so that all of us could keep in contact as a group," Knight said. "I think it has turned out working great and really allowed us to stay in closer contact and start that close-knit family atmosphere that is needed on a team that wants to be successful."

During the football season, the commits would get online and talk about their games as well as talk about how OU did that week. It became a way for the recruits to get introduced to each other.

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Michele Steele and ESPN Regional Coordinators Jaime Newberg, Dave Hooker, Damon Sayles, Mitch Sherman and Jared Shanker take you through the latest news on the college football recruiting scene.