There is no easy way to say this, but the Big 12 is a mess right now. The conference is almost certainly out of playoff contention, although Baylor and West Virginia are both currently undefeated. It doesn’t help that this conference’s marquee programs have not lived up to the hype in 2016, at least according to Stewart Mandel (FOXSports).
To make things worse, there are weird noises coming out of Norman these days. Oklahoma president David Boren got the ball rolling on expansion earlier this year . Then he may have stopped it cold in its tracks with his remarks a few weeks ago, leaving us to wonder what the real game is.