At this point in the Big 12 season there are really just four or five teams with a realistic shot at making the Big 12 title game. At 1-2, Oklahoma State isn’t “out” of it but they’d have to go 6-0 or 5-1 against a slate that includes Baylor, at ISU, TCU, and Oklahoma. The … [Read more…]
There were only three games in the Big 12 this week, but all of them were pretty significant and a couple of them had lines that I thought were pretty silly heading into the week. Oklahoma and Baylor both -11 was a bit much and sure enough, neither covered although both pulled out some wins. … [Read more…]
The weekend slate before the Red River Shootout is often a strange and overlooked one within the Big 12 conference. Even though Texas has been truly good in only one of the years since the exodus of Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, and Texas A&M, it was clear when that happened that things were shaping up to … [Read more…]
Now that the Big 12 season is underway, there’s been a few interesting stories and subplots cropping up across the league. I figured it’d be fun to hit on a few of the particularly relevant ones that have been cropping up. Trejan Bridges to safety? This one looks like a nothing burger, but in a … [Read more…]
The action is really starting to heat up in the Big 12 now. We got three particularly clarifying games in the second week of in-conference play and then a customary but likely satisfying (for the winner) blowout of the Kansas Jayhawks. The national scene was pretty interesting too. Mack Brown’s UNC nearly upset Clemson before … [Read more…]
Week 5 is the first real slate of Big 12 football games that will start to shape the conference race. Obviously Oklahoma State had a big chance in week 4 to catapult to the top of the league with a victory over Texas but I suspect that only people living in Oklahoma really thought that … [Read more…]
Over at Crimson and Cream Machine you can read an excerpt from my new book, “Flyover Football: How the Big 12 became the frontier for modern football.” The selection is from Chapter 9: Bob’s last gift and the no-D league. The chapter discusses how Stoops pushed the Big 12 forward with one final offensive hire … [Read more…]
I didn’t take in much college football over the weekend as a result of driving to Austin to visit newborn family. I did attend the Texas/Oklahoma State game though and took in a lot from that contest. One result that really stood out on the scoreboard was Iowa State dropping 72 while their key receivers … [Read more…]
Most of the Big 12 won in week 3 with the conference scoring a 6-2 record against their non-conference slate. Iowa State suffered a weird and disastrous defeat against rival Iowa, who incidentally has zero turnovers over the last four seasons while going 4-0 on Matt Campbell. For all that he’s done in Ames, Campbell … [Read more…]
Baylor was a common dark horse pick for 2019, at least to be a competitive team if not a legit B12 title contender, due to the accumulation of three factors. Charlie Brewer as QB, a third offseason for Rhule to establish his program, and then a favorable schedule. We’re seeing that third factor play out … [Read more…]