Week 11 was fun, Oklahoma State came within a missed extra point or converted two point conversion of beating Oklahoma and then Texas Tech raced back from a 34-17 deficit to force a game-winning drive from Texas. The RRS rematch is still in play. Here’s Max Olson’s helpful breakdown of the B12 from here: I … [Read more…]
I’ve spent a lot of time breaking down the state of the Oklahoma defense on this blog which should be pretty important to the story of the 2018 Big 12 season. I’m highly skeptical of the post-Mayfield Sooners in general but I’m not an insane Texas homer that think they’ll be terrible on offense with all … [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard from fans of other conferences, the Big 12 hasn’t been doing so well in the NFL draft of late. This was a big story in 2017 when only one player (Pat Mahomes, Texas Tech) was drafted from the conference into the first round. I figured that the league would rebound strongly … [Read more…]
I don’t know that I want to try and rank them all again. Last year I developed a system for weighting the grades I handed out and then added it all up. This year I think I’m done with that. It’s fun content and makes for good debate but I’m not sure how valuable it … [Read more…]
My observation from doing these Big 12 class breakdowns for four years or so is that Dana Holgorsen tends to load up on skill athletes, take a suspect number of bigs, and then select QBs that don’t seem to necessarily match the style of offense he inevitably runs in a given season. Maybe that’s confirmation … [Read more…]
This should be our final piece to this puzzle and then I’ll begin to move on to the always popular Big 12 class breakdowns. In part I we focused on the ways in which teams still run 3-4 and 4-3 base defenses in the spread era today. These are increasingly less common because of how … [Read more…]
I just got a look at the coach’s selections for the All-B12 team, it was pretty solid. I mean they list like six DL or something silly like that to make sure that everyone who had a standout season is recognized which is reasonable. The main purpose of a list like that is to give … [Read more…]
Most interesting to me, at least. I think these guys are high upside athletes that could be about to breakout and consequently have a huge impact on this coming season. Let’s begin… No. 5: Blake Lynch, Baylor I was surprised when Blake Lynch was absolutely nowhere on Baylor’s depth chart. At 6-3, 205 he’s a … [Read more…]
I can’t remember if I was ever remotely good at picking Big 12 games off the lines last year but they’re pretty interesting in terms of gauging sharp expectations for teams heading into the season. So for that reason I’m going to dive into the week one lines and what I think of the national … [Read more…]
Preseason is the time of eternal optimism, when every question mark about every team is one that could break positively or negatively and it’s hard to be sure of which. I find you often get the clearest picture by assuming that the question marks about a given team will break about 50-50. If you do … [Read more…]