We now take a brief interruption from my breakdown of every Big 12 recruiting class (only one to go, Baylor) so that I can highlight something fun I just posted up at SB Nation. I ranked the undefeated teams and another squad that I think would have been the most likely to win in the … [Read more…]
I overlooked TCU in my preseason prognostications of the 2017 Big 12 football season. I probably oversteered a bit for having missed West Virginia the previous season and I also underestimated Gary Patterson’s ability to fix the defense with so many returning starters and Sonny Cumbie’s ability to mold Kenny Hill into a good game … [Read more…]
Last year was a huge one for Kliff Kingsbury at Texas Tech. He needed to win some games and he was going to have to figure it out without Patrick Mahomes II at QB but instead relying on 5th-year senior/stopgap Nic Shimonek. That necessarily meant that Texas Tech was going to need to play defense … [Read more…]
There have been a few big picture themes that are very clear regarding Lincoln Riley’s rule in Norman and some others that are murkier. It’s clear that Riley is a very effective recruiter that guarantees consistently strong classes for his program, he’s committed to the run game and creative in deploying it, he’s a really … [Read more…]
The 2017 season was a big one for Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State. My assumption was that it was going to be his big chance to cash in hard on the Mason Rudolph era before it faded and head off for another job (Tennessee?) if he was ever going to do so. Oklahoma State seemed … [Read more…]
The terminal stages of the Charlie Weis era at Kansas were marked by the 2013 recruiting class, which featured 35 signed players of which 20 were JUCOs. The brazen over signing was made possible by the fact that he was just taking flyers on kids all over the place with the understanding that many of … [Read more…]