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This is a weekly thread to discuss football in the Big 12. Discussion should be limited to football in the conference.

Week 3 Results
  • Arizona State 31 - Texas State 28

A good game in which Vegas actually had TXST as the favorite, ASU came in to San Marcos on a warm Thursday night and was able to return home still undefeated.

  • UNLV 23 - Kansas 20

UNLV is now 2-0 in Big 12 Play. Two KU interceptions that led to 10 points for UNLV in a close game proved to be too much to overcome.

  • #14 Kansas State 31 - #20 Arizona 7

The Wildcats were a 9.5 point favorite over the Wildcats, so it should come as no big surprise that the Wildcats bested the Wildcats. After giving up a TD on the opening drive, K-State was able to lock down the Arizona offense and pitch a shutout the rest of the way.

  • #13 Oklahoma State 45 - Tulsa 10

OSU jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. Nearly 400 yards and 5 TDs through the air propelled the Cowboys in their route of the Golden Hurricane.

  • Cincinnati 27 - Miami OH 16

Cincinnati leaned on their rushing attack to the tune of 6.3 yards per carry to win the 128th Battle for the Victory Bell.

  • Texas Tech 66 - North Texas 21

Tech had an explosion of scoring in the second quarter that led to a 49-7 lead at halftime, which sealed the deal in Lubbock.

  • Pitt 38 - West Virginia 34

Ouch. Back and forth all game, then WVU goes up 10 with less than 5 minutes to play but couldn’t quite hang on to the lead. It always sucks to lose to your rival, but it especially sucks to do it by blowing a lead in the 4th quarter.

  • #12 Utah 38 - Utah State 21

Isaac Wilson had his first start at QB for the Utes, and he completed passes to nine different receivers. Didn’t have a lightning fast start, but settled in and had a good game.

  • Colorado 28 - Colorado State 9

Colorado once again leaned on Travis Hunter on his way to 13 receptions for 2 TDs. He’s the real deal, and time will tell if the team is as well.

  • Baylor 31 - Air Force 3

I thought it was deja vu all over again when we had three lost fumbles in the first half and Air Force did their thing by taking 35 minutes per drive to work themselves into field goal range. I wanted Aranda to make the offense run all through halftime because of the fumbles. He of course didn’t, and we were able to clean up our act for the second half to finally get into the end zone and start scoring points. Not to put too much stock into this game, but it was nice for the team to actually look competent and have some explosiveness. I still think Richard Reese is underutilized. Sawyer Robertson looked pretty good at QB, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens in Boulder.

  • UCF 35 - TCU 34

There’s so much yet so little to say about this one. TCU should’ve won it, but UCF finally came out on top of one of these crazy games. TCU went up 31 - 13 with 5:03 left in the third quarter, but UCF fought back and stole a win on their way out of Fort Worth.

  • Houston 33 - Rice 7

Houston finds the win column this week. I’ve seen a lot of doom and gloom from the UH fans here, so I’m sure it feels nice to at least not lose to Rice. The stat lines aren’t necessarily impressive, but UH got it done.

  • BYU 34 - Wyoming 12

BYU survives the Laramie test. BYU took a 14 - 0 lead early in the second quarter and was able to maintain the lead the rest of the way.

Rankings

#12 Utah

#13 Kansas State

#14 Oklahoma State

#20 Iowa State

Week 4

9/21/2024

Home Away Time Network
Cincinnati 2-1 Houston 1-2 11:00 AM FS1
West Virginia 1-2 Kansas 1-2 11:00 AM ESPN2
#20 Iowa State 2-0 Arkansas State 2-1 1:00 PM ESPN+
Texas Tech 2-1 Arizona State 3-0 2:30 PM FS1
#14 Oklahoma State 3-0 #12 Utah 3-0 3:00 PM FOX
SMU 2-1 TCU 2-1 4:00 PM The CW
Colorado 2-1 Baylor 2-1 7:00 PM FOX
BYU 3-0 #13 Kansas State 3-0 9:30 PM ESPN
Tiers

Tier 1:

Kansas State

Oklahoma State

Utah

Iowa State

Tier 2:

UCF

TCU

Arizona State

BYU

Arizona

Tier 3:

Texas Tech

Baylor

West Virginia

Kansas

Cincinnati

Tier 4:

Colorado

Houston

Tier 4 could probably just get absorbed into Tier 3, but the Baylor/Colorado and Houston/Cincinnati games this weekend should sort that out. It’s been tough to see Kansas drop back down after having so much promise. Y’all were primed to be America’s sweetheart team this year. Obviously the year’s not over, but I would imagine expectations have changed since Week 1.

Championship Picks

I’ll stick with Utah since they were able to figure out how to be more effective on offense without Cam Rising. Big game in Stillwater this weekend.