On Tuesday morning, Longhorns Wire spans the Big 12 landscape for the biggest stories in the conference. For this edition we take the biggest headlines from Twitter, Yahoo Sports and USA TODAY Sports
Patrick Mahomes becomes fastest to 10,000 yards
On Monday Night Football, former Texas Longhorns wide out Devin Duvernay became the first player this year to score a touchdown on a kickoff. However, it was the reigning Super Bowl MVP that stole the show in Baltimore. During the game in which the Chiefs won 34-20, Mahomes became the fastest player to reach 10,000 yards passing. He did it in 34 games, that breaks down to 303.2 yards per game.
Given how he has taken the NFL by storm, it isn’t a shock to see all the accolades for Mahomes. He has also never thrown an interception or lost a game during the month of September in his brief career. Still impressive.
Making history… again. Congrats @PatrickMahomes! pic.twitter.com/RwA1ysqKbW
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) September 29, 2020
College football takeaways: Oklahoma’s flop turns bad Big 12 season into a disaster
Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports believes that the loss by the Oklahoma Sooners has doomed the conference in terms of the CFP. While he is reserving judgement of Baylor, no one is believing in the Texas Longhorns after their game against Texas Tech.
The sound you may have heard from Big 12 headquarters was commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who is normally defiantly monotone, cursing. The league’s playoff chances have revolved around Oklahoma in the CFP era, as the Sooners have been the league’s only entrant. OU has reached the playoff three consecutive years and four of the past five. OU’s shocking home loss to a watered-down Kansas State team combined with Texas’ shaky overtime win this week and Oklahoma State sputtering last week against Tulsa leaves the Big 12 lacking high-end candidates. (We’ll see how Baylor looks next week at West Virginia before we start judging the Bears.)
College football Week 4 winners and losers include Auburn, Mississippi State, Big 12
Paul Myerburg of USA TODAY Sports called the Big 12 the biggest losers of week four of the college football season.
You can’t sugarcoat or find any silver linings behind the Sooners’ loss. Nor is there too much of a positive sort to take from Texas surviving in overtime at Texas Tech, 63-56, to remain unbeaten; while winning in Lubbock is never easy, needing every second of regulation and then some to do so is concerning. The big takeaway is this: The Big 12 did significant harm to its playoff hopes and will spend the next month scrambling to regain some footing before the Big Ten returns and joins the SEC as the top conferences in the country.