3. The Most Overrated Thing Was …
Technically, Oklahoma State, since it was rated and ranked 11th in the AP poll going into last week.
It’s no fun making the Big 12 a punching bag after going 0-3 vs. the Sun Belt, and with the 35-33 Texas Tech win over Houston Baptist being the closest any FCS team came to beating an FBS team, but the his just keep onnnnnnn coming.
It starts with Baylor having to bail on Houston this Saturday. More on that in the What It All Means section, but with this cancellation. that means the Big 12’s second-best non-conference win this year will be Texas whacking around UTEP.
The best victory? What’s the top game the conference will have on the resumé that shows the world that its champion belongs in the hunt for the College Football Playoff National Championship?
Oklahoma State 16, Tulsa 7.
The Golden Hurricane of Tulsa took a hit when star RB Shamari Brooks was knocked out for the year in practice with a knee injury, and the team still had a 7-3 lead on the supposedly big, bad team from the Big 12 into the 4th quarter.
Oklahoma State rallied with 13 unanswered points for the win, but even in victory it was yet another black eye for the conference.
This is supposed to be an OSU team worth of challenging for the conference title – and it still might – but it managed 279 yards of total offense, couldn’t get RB Chuba Hubbard going – he finished with 93 yards – and lost Spencer Sanders early on to an apparent ankle injury.
The Cowboys start the Big 12 schedule this week against West Virginia.
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