Although the Oklahoma Sooners have been out of the running for the Big 12 Championship for weeks now, following this conference has been entertaining nonetheless. With the TCU Horned Frogs still undefeated, it has been a race for the second spot in the conference championship and only two teams are left.
The Kansas State Wildcats and Texas Longhorns are the only two teams that could face TCU in Arlington and K-State is in the driver’s seat heading into the final week of the season. Here are the full Big 12 standings.
- TCU (8-0)
- Kansas State (6-2)
- Texas (5-3)
- Oklahoma State (4-4)
- Baylor (4-4)
- Texas Tech (4-4)
- Oklahoma (3-5)
- Kansas (3-5)
- West Virginia (2-6)
- Iowa State (1-7)
If the Wildcats beat Kansas this week, they’re going to the Big 12 Championship for the first time since 2003. It’s that simple. Win and they’re in.
Then, things get a little more interesting.
The Longhorns beat the Wildcats three weeks ago, so they hold the tiebreaker. If the Longhorns beat Baylor on Black Friday and K-State loses, both teams will finish the season with a 6-3 conference record, and the Longhorns will be the ones heading to the Big 12 title game.
Every Big 12 team except for West Virginia and Iowa State are bowl eligible. With the Cyclones and Mountaineers both sitting at 4-7, neither can make it to a bowl. Both Neal Brown and Matt Campbell could be on the way out of Morgantown and Ames at the end of the season, albeit for entirely different reasons.
The Sooners don’t have much to play for in the final week of the season other than a slightly better bowl game. They avoided a potentially tough situation by becoming bowl-eligible after beating Oklahoma State and will not have that hanging over their heads when they take on the Red Raiders at night in Lubbock.
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