Big 12 Roundtable - The Aftermath
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October 10, 2007 by
K-State blogger Bring on the Cats hosts this week's Big 12 Roundtable.
Some teams are coming off a big win or wins (Oklahoma, Colorado, KU, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Missouri), while others are dealing with the sting of a tough loss or losses (K-State, Texas, Nebraska, Baylor, Iowa State, Oklahoma State). Tell us where your team is headed in the wake of the first two weeks of conference play.
If I knew that I'd be living in Vegas (or Hawaii). Let's just say Nebraska is not in the driver's seat as they'd hoped to be.
Colorado and Texas A&M have emerged as unlikely conference leaders at 2-0 (give yourself a cookie if you predicted that), while preseason darlings Texas (0-2) and Nebraska (1-1 and not playing well) are floundering. Do the current leaders have the wherewithal to make it to San Antonio, or will somebody from elsewhere in the pack overtake them?
I think CU, Missouri and Kansas absolutely have the inside track to winning the North but I wouldn't put A&M ahead of OU at this point.
A few weeks ago we did a ranking of the six BCS conferences, with most bloggers picking the Big 12 in the middle of the pack, which would be a big improvement over the last couple years. Have the middle and bottom teams of the conference improved significantly, or have the teams at the top declined significantly? Or is it something else?
All of the above. The marquee teams are less imposing but only a couple teams (ISU and Baylor) are really bad right now.
Getting waaaaay ahead of ourselves: What if Missouri or KU goes undefeated and wins the Big 12 Championship Game? Would they get a shot at the national championship game?
Yes. The BCS almost guarantees it. The only way it doesn't happen is if Ohio State and LSU run the table and in that case it's probably fair.
Rank the conference teams
OU
A&M
MU
KU
TT
CU
KSU
NU
TX
OSU
ISU
Baylor
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AustinHusker Oct 10 07
If the rankings are correct then this week will be NU last victory of the season, with losses to A$M, UT, KU, KSU and CU. 5-6 finish sounds a little harsh to me.
But probably even more improbable is that UT will loose to all the teams listed above them. I would say that is not likely.
Interesting question, why are some teams UT and others KU?
CU Zach Oct 10 07
CU, NU, MU, OU and the other original Big 8 teams places the state name before "univeristy" while the University of Texas was a member of the SWC and they did not have this tradition.
Austinhusker Oct 12 07
hey thanks for the reply CU Zack. It was more of a rhetorical question, I didn't know there was an actual answer to it.