Rulers of the New Big 12

Which teams are the "Big Dogs" in the new Big 12? Choose up to three and give your criteria.

  • Arizona

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Arizona State

    Votes: 4 12.1%

  • Baylor

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • BYU

    Votes: 3 9.1%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Colorado

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Houston

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Iowa State

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 4 12.1%

  • Kansas State

    Votes: 15 45.5%

  • Oklahoma State

    Votes: 14 42.4%

  • TCU

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • Texas Tech

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • UCF

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Utah

    Votes: 17 51.5%

  • West Virginia

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • Total voters
    33
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Occupant asked this in another thread. We've beat around the bush on this one for a while so why not vote. To use analogies, who is the "anchor store" for a mall, bell cow/hooking bull in a herd, top of the totem pole,............................

Who ya got?
 
I think the best teams, consistantly coming into the new conference are Utah, Oklahoma State, then flip a coin.

So that's what I think will happen in the future.
Not sold on Arizona, or Cinn., ore UCF and so on.

Sustained success coming in
 
If Kleiman stays at KSU, I might go with them instead of flipping the coin.
 
Went with KSU, Utah and Oklahoma State. I think all 3 could possibly make the CFP.
 
occupant said:
If Utah and purple cats keep their coaches they’ll be hard to beat.

Resource wise, Cincy, UCF and BYU would seem to have deeper pockets than the rest.

Fuck Jr.
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Kansas State, I think has a pretty deep NIL pockets. If what they're doing translates at all to football.
 
Arizona St will finally enter a period of competing for the Natty
 
The top 2 will probably be KSU & Utah.

But I don’t really follow CFB in the off-season anymore, not even my own team. So, I dunno if they did anything with the two ex-Arky St retards or not.

Until the retarded HC is gone (preferably the AD too), UCF is pretty much guaranteed to suck.
 
fordman84 said:
"Come on down and vote for the tallest midget!!"
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Every day, a male co-worker walks up very close to a lady standing at the coffee machine, inhales a big breath of air and tells her that her hair smells nice. After a week of this, she can't stand it anymore, takes her complaint to a supervisor in Human Resources and states that she wants to file a sexual harassment grievance against him. The Human Resources supervisor is puzzled by this decision and asks,"What's sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice?" The woman replies, "It's Keith, the midget."
 
I selected Kansas, Kansas St, or Utah because they all have good coaching.

Of those three I'll give the nod to Leipold. Dude's done an incredible job down there and I'm amazed he hasn't been poached yet.

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Utah (though I won’t be surprised to see an adjustment period for them to the new digs) would make a lot of sense along with TCU, KState and Okie State to be consistently at or near the top but man with the vacuum that exists in that conference now with the two bell cows gone, the new pay for play rules and so many “good” programs who have shown the ability to either have a fantastic season or even a crazy hot streak of 3-5 games where it seems nobody can beat em during a random season it wouldn’t shock me in the least if it were a different team every year. The new B12 could be wildly entertaining year in and year out and at times a beautiful mess :laugh:.

Don’t forget, there is a playoff spot for the winner of that beautiful mess too.
 
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CoalTrain said:
Utah (though I won’t be surprised to see an adjustment period for them to the new digs) would make a lot of sense along with TCU, KState and Okie State to be consistently at or near the top but man with the vacuum that exists in that conference now with the two bell cows gone, the new pay for play rules and so many “good” programs who have shown the ability to either have a fantastic season or even a crazy hot streak of 3-5 games where it seems nobody can beat em during a random season it wouldn’t shock me in the least if it were a different team every year. The new B12 could be wildly entertaining year in and year out and at times a beautiful mess :laugh:.

Don’t forget, there is a playoff spot for the winner of that beautiful mess too.
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This. I play golf with a Oklahoma State Cowboy and Texas Tech Red Raider 2-3 times a week. We've been "discussing" (aka arguing) who will step forward and be the new "bell cows" now that OU and Texas are gone. (FTR, neither blame OU and Texas for leaving whatsoever. Both say they'd of been crazy not to.)

While Utah, K-State and Oklahoma State seem to be the consensus on who will have the best football teams this year, none of them move the needle very far in terms of national viewership. At least compared to other conferences. Exchange those three with Iowa State, Arizona and West Viriginia and viewership would be about the same if teams are comparable.
 
occupant said:
If Utah and purple cats keep their coaches they’ll be hard to beat.

Resource wise, Cincy, UCF and BYU would seem to have deeper pockets than the rest.

Fuck Jr.
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Cold hard truth is there probably isn't going to be any "hooking bulls" in the herd. None have the cache to dominate the others. If asked this of the B1G, I'm pretty sure Ohio State and Michigan would receive 90% of the votes. SEC would include more teams (especially adding OU/Texas) but we all know the schools that WOULDN'T be considered "hooking bulls". Same with the ACC. FSU, Clem and UNC would pop to the top automatically and that's about it.

I ranked the Big 12 1-16 in their ability to draw national attraction (overall, not just football) and came up with BYU first and Houston last. But, is there really any significant difference between those? I don't see it. While not midgets, there still isn't a team that can pull big attraction by themselves. Maybe they can do something collectively to help themselves.
 
Does the Ollie Gordon situation change minds on OK St?
 
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