Last week I was encouraging you to hug an Aggie. They needed it after being thrashed by K-State 59-0 and looking forward to a Texas Tech team that beat K-State 66-14. By all accounts Tech should have handed aTm their hats.
As you know by now that didn't happen. Just another crazy result in the now crazy Big XII, a land where Nebraska beats Mizzou one week and then loses a sloppy game to Iowa State. (Iowa State? What?)
Then you have Oklahoma, which looked terrible against BYU, like world-beaters against Tulsa, not-so-great against a only mediocre Miami team, OK against Texas, and then back to world-beaters against a Kansas team that was humming along until falling to that powerhouse Colorado who then got handled easily by that powerhouse Kansas State, which is now in 1st place in the Big XII North.
This we know:
UT-Austin is good, but not that good. Certainly not good enough that a one or two loss season is beyond the pale.
Everyone else is down. Maybe even way down. When the team in 1st place in the North division has a loss to Louisiana Lafayette on their record things are not going well. Nothing against the Ragin Cajun's mind you, they're a decent team, but there's no way a middle of the pack Sun Belt team should ever stand toe to toe with a division-leader in one of the power conferences....
...unless that conference is the Big XII. Or should be say...the Former Southwest Conference schools and what's left of the Big 8 football tradition. (excepting OU and OSU)
What's going to happen next week? You tell me.