The Big 12 conference is up for grabs in 2023. That said, there are several teams who have emerged as pretenders so far.
The Baylor Bears (1-2) and Texas Tech Red Raiders (1-2) outed themselves as pretenders fairly early. Week 3 added a few more conference pretenders to the list.
Iowa State, Cincinnati and Oklahoma State were never viewed as serious contenders for the conference. Albeit, we didn’t predict what would ensue on Saturday.
Heading into the day, we viewed South Alabama as a threat to upset the Oklahoma State Cowboys. We did not expect what we saw in the matchup. South Alabama defeated Oklahoma State in Stillwater, 33-7.
Cincinnati and Iowa State suffered surprising losses to lesser teams as well. Let’s discuss those results and other takeaways from Saturday.