The #RhuleofLaw has officially ended in Waco. The Matt Rhule hire was a home run for the Bears. Back when it was clear that they would probably have to move off Art Briles I wrote an article suggesting that they make a defensive hire and stick with the 3-down defense they were experimenting with toward … [Read more…]
The 2019 bowl season was a big L for the Big 12 conference. The nuanced understanding of the Big 12 is that it’s a league that has two programs with “blue blood” and nationally competitive resources, but then eight other programs that in a given year can play at a top 25 or even top … [Read more…]
Obviously Oklahoma won the Big 12 championship in 2019. This was the fifth consecutive time they’ve done that and the sixth time this decade (2011-2019). It’s also worth pointing out that Oklahoma drew a playoff berth as a result of finishing 12-1 and that this is the fourth time in five years that they’ve been … [Read more…]
This is a pretty interesting game coming up between Baylor and Oklahoma. This is our third Big 12 title game since they reintroduced it in the round robin era. Overall the round robin era has been a difficult grind that has served to demonstrate the supremacy of spread passing as Oklahoma has been the only … [Read more…]
Since I coined the term “inverted Tampa 2” to describe Iowa State’s defense I’ve been getting questions regularly on how this newfangled anti-spread scheme works. Particularly since Baylor essentially stole it and made it a major part of their package while turning their bust-prone defense into a unit that paved the way for an 11-1 … [Read more…]
We have our championship game contenders locked in now with Baylor vs Oklahoma now preparing to reprise their fascinating battle from the other week. Interestingly, both teams leaned very heavily on the QB run game to make round one a close battle and both teams continued to lean on that dimension of their offense to … [Read more…]
What a week. We got a couple of really big games with consequences for the rest of the season that are a little anticlimactic but things were no less fascinating this week. Technically Oklahoma, Baylor, Oklahoma State, and Texas are all still in the running to appear in the Big 12 championship. Both Baylor and … [Read more…]
It’s easy to forget now that Baylor vs Oklahoma has really been the defining series of the 2010s in the Big 12. The 2011 Heisman bid by RG3 was propelled by a home win against the Sooners. Then the 2013 and 2014 Big 12 titles for Baylor came alongside a pair of shellackings administered to … [Read more…]
Week 11 was a great one for Big 12 football. The Baylor-TCU game took place at noon, which was a big win given the ratings bonanza taking place at 3:30 (not K-State/TX), and then the Big 12 had far and away the best primetime game in the Iowa State-Oklahoma battle. Perhaps this was inevitable but … [Read more…]
I was preparing for my Kansas State preview over at Inside Texas (those drop on Thursdays and I believe this one will be free) today and went down a statistical rabbit hole that proved interesting. I was looking up how much of Kansas State’s pressure comes from their DL and the DL’s share of the … [Read more…]