Baylor’s Back, Eight Big 12 Bowl Teams

(*12*)

Every Monday in the course of the faculty soccer season, followers of groups throughout the nation return to work and focus on the occasions of the weekend with their coworkers. Around the water cooler or espresso machine, overreactions are born as immediately one crew is now a nationwide title contender (they’re not) and one other’s season is over after a troublesome loss (it isn’t).

Let us sift by way of the rumors, false allegations, and straight-up nonsense for you this season with overreaction Monday, the place we let you know whether or not you must cool the jets otherwise you legitimately have one thing to fret about.

Baylor’s Resurgence is Too Little, Too Late

Overreaction. As I stated after Baylor’s 38-35 win over Oklahoma on Saturday, the Baylor Bears are proper within the thick of the Big 12 race. At 6-3, and 4-2 general within the Big 12, the Bears are sitting in a three-way tie with Texas and Kansas State for second place within the convention standings. Now, the schedule forward isn’t simple, however Baylor is able to profitable each recreation that continues to be on the 2022 slate. This week, Baylor will host Kansas State, adopted by TCU coming to city, after which the Bears hit the highway to finish the yr in Austin towards the Texas Longhorns. Yes, it performs the highest three groups within the convention standings to finish the yr, however Baylor is 100% enjoying its greatest soccer of the season and that’s actually adequate to get them again to Arlington for the second-straight yr and for the third time in 4 years.

Oklahoma State is Going Down in Flames

Not an Overreaction. Things have gotten dangerous in Stillwater and it has occurred so rapidly. Just a number of weeks in the past there have been discussions about how a one-loss Oklahoma State crew may win the Big 12 Championship and discover their manner into the College Football Playoff, however then their journeys to the Sunflower State occurred. After a 48-0 loss to Okay-State and a 37-16 loss to Kansas, the Cowboys are spiraling uncontrolled and there’s no signal of assistance on the horizon. Garret Rangel made his first begin on Saturday towards KU and had three interceptions, however accomplished 67.5% of his passes and amassed 304 yards and two scores. The dangerous news is, even when Spencer Sanders returned, I’m unsure that it will make a distinction. The offensive line is enjoying terribly and was solely capable of handle 111 yards speeding towards a Kansas entrance that has been porous all yr. And the protection? Well, it ranks lifeless final within the Big 12 in each scoring and complete metrics. Plus, it seems that star DE Trace Ford goes to overlook a while with one other potential knee damage.

80% of the Big 12 Will Go Bowling

Not an Overreaction. Through 10 weeks of soccer, the Big 12 has six groups which are already bowl eligible: TCU, Texas, Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas, and Oklahoma State. That implies that 60% of the convention is already set to go to a bowl and that two extra groups want to search out wins. Oklahoma sits at 5-4 and has video games towards West Virginia, Oklahoma State, and Texas Tech remaining. The Sooners will discover a approach to win at the least a kind of video games and get to a bowl.

Both Texas Tech and Iowa State sit at 4-5, whereas West Virginia is 3-6. Texas Tech has Kansas, Iowa State and Oklahoma left on its schedule, whereas Iowa State’s remaining schedule is Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and TCU. I’m going to say that the sport between Texas Tech and Iowa State will resolve who goes bowling, and that the Cyclones discover a approach to outduel Texas Tech in Ames to get it finished. Add Oklahoma and Iowa State to the checklist of bowl groups and that’s 8/10 groups heading to a bowl. For a convention that has seen as a lot parity as anybody within the nation, that sounds about proper.