We’ve got basketball, football, and…golf today. Plus, your Big 12 power rankings heading into week eight.

• The Big 12 basketball preseason poll and All-Big 12 team are here. Kansas is the preseason favorite for the 20th time in 28 seasons, and the Jayhawks’ Hunter Dickinson is the preseason Big 12 Player of the Year. 

• The Big 12 is the first league in history to have five top-ten teams in the first AP Top 25 basketball poll, which was released this week. Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks are the preseason number one team. 

• SEC and Big Ten ADs, along with commissioners Greg Sankey and Tony Petiti, met in Nashville this week to discuss automatic bids in the College Football Playoff, a football and basketball scheduling arrangement between the two leagues, and a post-House settlement enforcement entity. As Ross Dellenger puts it, “they are the drivers of the car now.” That’s not good news for the Big 12.

• LIV Golf contacted Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark about their CEO opening with Greg Norman on his way out. Fortunately, a source says the call didn’t last long because Yormark isn’t interested in leaving his current gig. 

• Utah has officially announced that quarterback Cam Rising is out for the year. Head coach Kyle Whittingham says an 8th season for Rising could be considered if he wants to pursue it.

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Big 12 Power Rankings

Here are your week eight Big 12 power rankings! Please note: these are rankings, not power ratings. That means they are primarily based on what a team has accomplished so far this year – not necessarily how good I think the team is. You’ll see their ranking from last week in parentheses.

1. Iowa State (LW: 1)

2. BYU (LW: 2)

3. K-State (LW: 3)

4. Texas Tech (LW: 4)

5. Arizona State (LW: 9)

6. Colorado (LW: 6)

7. Cincinnati (LW: 8)

8. West Virginia (LW: 7)

9. Utah (LW: 5)

10. Arizona (LW: 10)

11. UCF (LW: 11)

12. Houston (LW: 12)

13. TCU (LW: 13)

14. Baylor (LW: 14)

15. Oklahoma State (LW: 15)

16. Kansas (LW: 16)

• No changes at the top, with both BYU and Iowa State taking care of business. Both wins seemed equally impressive in my eyes. BYU more thoroughly dominated Arizona, but Iowa State won on the road in a tough environment. BYU certainly has an argument for the top spot, but I’m sticking with the Cyclones for now. 

• Arizona State is our first big mover of the week. What a massive win for Kenny Dillingham over Utah. Say what you will about the Utes in their current state, but that’s a significant win for the Sun Devils. I think Colorado has a higher ceiling, but ASU has the better resume for now. 

• Speaking of Utah, will this be where they bottom out? It’s been quite the fall from #1 to #9 over the last few weeks, leaving them as an afterthought in the Big 12 title race. I think it’s for the better that they’re now forced to move forward with Issac Wilson at quarterback. We’ll see how much upward mobility they have left in them.

• The bottom five were all off last week, so nothing changes there. Kansas can pull itself out of the cellar with a good performance against Houston this week, and Oklahoma State and UCF have chances to shock the top two teams in the power rankings on Saturday.