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Mitch Vingle: Big 12 meetings, Mizzou and da Bears

Running back Alex Ross (28) is a graduate transfer who left Oklahoma in May and landed at Missouri, West Virginia’s opponent in the season opener.

Ye olde notebook:

n Everyone in the media, it seems, missed it. Yet nothing, it seems, was missed.

The Big 12 athletic directors met this week in New Orleans and, yes, a topic of particular interest was discussed.

“We went down because of the Sugar Bowl,” said WVU athletic director Shane Lyons. “We did continue to discuss expansion, but, in general, nothing came out of it.”

The Sugar Bowl is the “contract bowl” of the Big 12 and SEC when it’s not a College Football Playoff semifinal game.