There is no influence from outside polls, preseason expectations, history, or recruiting rankings. They rank teams based on nothing but their performance in the current season. While it isn't scientific, my Fornelli Ratings which I use to submit my ballot for the CBS Sports 131 and in my Bottom 25 rankings, are a perfect tool to point out how good the league is at the bottom.įor the uninitiated, my Fornelli Ratings are as unbiased as possible. It's a conference in which everybody can beat anybody else in the league on any given Saturday (OK, maybe not Oklahoma at the moment, but more on them in a bit). Now that Kansas is good (#BelieveInKansas), that's not the case in the Big 12. You might not know who will cover the spread, but you know who will win. Yes, upsets happen every weekend, and they're all beautiful surprises, but when you go conference by conference looking at a week's schedule, there are always one or two (and sometimes three or four) games in which you're reasonably confident of the outcome. That's not common in this day and age of college football. The Big 12 had four games on the schedule, and I realized I wanted to watch all four because I didn't know what would happen in any of them. While I've been enjoying the league all season, it didn't truly hit me until Saturday morning, waiting for the games to start.

What should matter is the second statement. There's a lot of football left to be played and a lot of things that could go right or wrong. It's not even officially mid-October yet. It's not likely, but it's possible.īut that shouldn't matter right now, anyway. Still, in the Big 12, it is possible that TCU or Oklahoma State could run the table, reach the College Football Playoff, and win it all. Of the three, only Ohio State seems to be firing on all cylinders at the moment. Anything remains possible in a college football season where every weekend reminds us that the three dominant teams we've come to know and love (OK, so some loathe) might not be as dominant as we all thought. Now, the first statement could be proven false over the next few months. The Big 12 is the best conference in college football, and I would like it injected directly into my veins every Saturday. The Big 12 does not have a great team capable of winning a national title this season.Ģ. The following two statements can both be true.ġ.

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