Here is the latest Big 12 Conference sports news from The Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.

(AP) Rich Rodriguez says he regrets leaving West Virginia 17 years ago.

Rodriguez was introduced as the coach at his alma mater on Friday.

Based on the welcome he got from the thousands of West Virginia fans in attendance, much seems to be forgiven.

Rodriguez told the crowd that he never should have left his home state.

The 61-year-old coach says he's grown both as a person and a coach throughout his long career, and that his departure at the end of the 2007 season for a head coaching job at Michigan was a mistake.

Rodriguez went 60-26 at West Virginia from 2001 to 2007.

NEW YORK (AP) With two-way star Travis Hunter of Colorado and Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty leading the field, these arent your typical Heisman Trophy contenders.

Sure, veteran quarterbacks Dillon Gabriel from top-ranked Oregon and Cam Ward of No.

15 Miami are also finalists for college footballs most prestigious award, but the 90th annual ceremony Saturday night offers a fresh flavor this year.

To start with, none of the four are from the powerhouse Southeastern Conference, which has produced four of the past five Heisman winners.

Jeanty is the first running back even invited to the Heisman party since 2017.

Hunter is Colorado's first finalist in 30 years.

UNDATED (AP) Doug Meacham has returned to Oklahoma State as offensive coordinator.

Meacham played offensive line for the Cowboys from 1983 to 1987 and worked with tight ends and inside receivers on Oklahoma States coaching staff from 2005 to 2012.

Meacham most recently was an offensive coordinator in 2021 at TCU, and he remained on the Horned Frogs staff through this season.

He was an assistant coach for the TCU squad that reached the national championship game after the 2022 season.

He also has been a college offensive coordinator at Kansas, Houston, Samford, Henderson State, Jacksonville State and Georgia Military.

TUCSON, Ariz.

(AP) Arizona has hired Marshalls Seth Doege as its next offensive coordinator.

The school announced the addition to coach Brent Brennans staff on Friday.

Doege replaces Dino Babers, who was fired after Arizona finished 115th nationally in total offense in Brennans first season.

Doege spent one season as Marshalls offensive coordinator, leading an offense that scored 31 points per game and rushed for more than 200 yards per game.

He had previous stints at Purdue, Ole Miss, Southern California and Bowling Green.

Doege had a prolific career as a quarterback under the late Mike Leach at Texas Tech.

BOULDER, Colo.

(AP) Julian Hammond III scored a season-high 23 points as Colorado rolled to an 81-70 nonconference win over South Dakota State to remain unbeaten on its home floor.

Colorado is 7-0 at home and its only losses came at the Maui Invitational.

The Jackrabbits lost for the third time in their last four games.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) TCU leading scorer Frankie Collins will miss the rest of the season because of a broken bone in his left foot.

The school says the 6-foot-2 senior guard will have surgery on Tuesday.

Collins leads the Horned Frogs with 11.2 points and 4.4 assists per game in his first season after transferring from Arizona State.

TCU says Collins broke his foot in the first half of an 83-74 loss to Vanderbilt last Sunday.

He still played 35 minutes.

Collins played 31 games as a freshman for Michigan in 2021-22, then played two seasons at Arizona State.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

(AP) North Carolina's hiring of NFL coaching great Bill Belichick marks another sign of the growing influence of the NFL on college football.

The challenges of managing the transfer portal and looming revenue sharing for athletes has led teams to take on more NFL-like structures to their programs.

Belichick is set to structure North Carolina's program like an NFL front office.

That includes hiring former NFL executive Michael Lombardi as general manager.

At Florida, coach Billy Napier is interviewing general managers while saying the program is going to a business model to deal with a major math puzzle..

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