It was a great ending to bowl season for the Big 12 with Texas thumping the Georgia Bulldogs in the All-State Sugar Bowl by a 28-21 count. This game was really wasn’t that close. Long story short…Texas physically handled the overrated Georgia Bulldogs. All told…the Big 12 went 3-1 versus the SEC this bowl season with the only loss coming with OU’s 45-34 loss to top ranked Alabama. O State beat Missouri while Baylor beat Vanderbilt in the other Big 12-SEC head to heads. I still firmly believe if Marquis Brown had been healthy OU would have come down to a last possession game with Alabama once they weathered that horrific first quarter. It was not a good week-end for either Marquis Brown or Antonio Brown for that matter.
I’m sure Jim Traber will have plenty to say this week about the meltdown in Pittsburgh as the Cleveland Browns along with the Baltimore Ravens appear to be poised to assume the crown in the AFC North as the fall of the once mighty Steelers in Pittsburgh has unraveled. Mike Tomlin has lost control of his football team. At some point…I’ll have to write about that Ravens-Browns game on Sunday.
But back to the Big 12…Iowa State lost in a close game to the PAC 12’s second best team in Washington State and West Virginia got handled by Syracuse as their QB Will Grier didn’t play.
All told the Big 12 went 4-3 in bowl season. After watching the bowls this is the way I rank the conferences right now… 1 SEC, 2 Big 12, 3 ACC, 4 Big Ten, 5 PAC 12. If you subtract Clemson from the ACC—it is a nothing football conference. A one team conference. The Big 12 will be tough next year. Kansas, K State, Texas Tech, and West Virginia will all have new head coaches. Texas will in my view be the conference favorite with Oklahoma being picked to finish second unless they get a graduate transfer at the QB position in say Jalen Hurts from Alabama. Why not? Iowa State will have Brock Purdy. And one would hope Spencer Sanders will show his potential at O State with great playmakers around him in wait.
I do wonder where Jalen Hurts will end up though. He was a Texas high school kid. He has a year left as a graduate transfer if he wants to do it. I don’t see him staying in the SEC if he does play another year. Spencer Rattler as a true freshman at OU… I’m not sure about. And I don’t know if Austin Kendall gives the Sooners what they need as far as a dual threat QB which will be needed to compete with Mini Tebow, Brock Purdy, Spencer Sanders, and the Brewer kid at Baylor.
Holgorson is headed to Houston so it will be interesting to see who lands the West Virginia job.
I loved the Bevo thing with UGA. It set the tone for the game. Pauli was sitting next to me watching when this unfolded. She went berserk growling at Bevo. Pauli is a warrior…old UGA not so much. Pauli would have gone after Bevo no doubt and maybe set a different tone for the overrated Georgia Bulldogs with all those five star recruits.