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DALLAS -- Baker Mayfield once hosted Patrick Mahomes on a recruiting visit at Texas Tech.Mahomes will be the host in late October when Mayfield leads Oklahoma, the overwhelming preseason favorite to win another Big 12 title, into Lubbock for a head-to-head meeting between two of the best quarterbacks in a high-scoring league filled with talented signal-callers.West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said the current crop of Big 12 quarterbacks, including four who threw for more than 3,100 yards last season, is reminiscent of a stretch nearly a decade ago when the league had most of its top all-time passers, including Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford with the Sooners in 2008.This reminds me of some of those 2006, 2007, 2008 years where we had a lot of older guys that were returning guys. Quarterback play has been great in this league for a long, long time, Holgorsen said. The last couple of years its been a little bit more spotty, but seeing all these guys coming back with what they can do, I think is pretty good.Potential Big 12 expansion and the Baylor assault scandal dominated the headlines during football media days. But there was still a lot of talk about what to watch on the field in 2016, including the Big 12s platoon of quarterbacks.Mayfield was fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting last season, when he had 3,700 yards passing and 37 touchdowns on way to the College Football Playoff in his Sooners debut. He will be a junior again this season, having gotten a season of eligibility back after a Big 12 rule change this summer. He was the first walk-on true freshman to start a season opener for an FBS team, in 2013 for Texas Tech, before transferring.Mahomes led the nation last season with 393 total yards per game, accounting for 46 touchdowns (36 passing, 10 rushing) as a sophomore.I like both of those young men a lot, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said. I think thats where Baker wanted to be and its worked out for him there. ... I know Patrick wanted to be at Texas Tech and both guys have had a tremendous run, and there is more yet to come.Skyler Howard returns for his senior season at West Virginia and Oklahoma State junior Mason Rudolph is healthy after a broken foot hampered him and the Cowboys down the stretch -- they lost their last three games after a 10-0 start.Baylor gets back Seth Russell, who was the top-rated FBS passer before a season-ending neck injury in the Bears seventh game last season.Trevone Boykin is no longer at TCU, but former Texas A&M transfer Kenny Hill -- who in his Aggies debut as a freshman in 2013 set a single-game school record with 511 yards passing -- is competing for the Horned Frogs starting job after having to sit out last season.Some more things to watch when the season begins:ON THE GROUNDThe Big 12 also has some big runners. Mike Warren had 1,339 yards rushing as a freshman for Iowa State last season, and is among four returning 1,000-yard rushers. 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The committee members laughed and denied a reporters question about whether they were pressured after rehearsals Sunday night to scratch a comedy sketch in which Brazilian-born supermodel Gisele Bundchen (wife of New England quarterback Tom Brady) was/wasnt involved in a Girl from Ipanema bit in which she was/wasnt mugged on the beach? (Muggings are a serious problem in Rio.) They said such a sketch was never planned.2. The committee refused to say how deep the opening ceremony budget cuts went, or even what the final cost ended up being. But Daniela Thomas, one planner, did say the cancellation of promised renovations to Maracana Stadium forced them to MacGyver their way through planning -- a surprise reference to the American TV show that drew laughter. (The Urban Slang dictionary says MacGyvering is when you take something and make it something it shouldnt be, but it almost works perfect. This is not a sacrifice, Thomas quickly added. MacGyvering rocks! Thomas did seem to contradict herself moments later, however, when she described how the planners studied the more exorbitantly funded efforts of previous opening ceremonies in Athens, Beijing and London. My colleagues and I, we cried. In fear, Thomas joked.3. The committee members said they couldd not corroborate Brazilian soccer great Peles claim in published reports that he will light the Olympic cauldron.dddddddddddd But several stressed they certainly didnt want to call the great Pele a liar either.4. Dame Judi Dench will be the only non-Brazilian performing in the ceremony. She agreed to film the reading of a poem along with Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro, who will attend in person. The two actresses and other notable entertainment figures such as musician Gilberto Gil will all perform pro bono.5. Because of limitations to the budget and Maracana Stadium, which has no track oval rimming the field and entry doors that are only two meters high, the ceremony will feature no floats from Rios famous Carnival. Organizers said plans for a four-meter high stage were also slashed because it would eliminate too many good (read: expensive) seats. So organizers couldnt plan any hydraulic machinery or aerial displays as part of the show. They confessed they also bought some of the inexpensive shoes and 50,000 yards of fabric the performers will wear at a cut-rate supplier in Rio. But they insisted they are still wildly enthusiastic about what theyve devised for the expected TV audience of 3.5 billion and 50,000 spectators and athletes who will sardine into the stadium Friday night. Beijings opening ceremony was muscular, London was smart, ours is going to be cool, promised Brazilian film director Fernando Meirelles, whose credits include City of God. ' ' '