Your Monday links start with a scathing rebuke.
This is our protip for other journalists who are busy trying to sell narratives in service to their employer's other interests: you have to at least make rational sense. For example, when one writer (ESPN's Brandon Chatmon) places 1-2 Texas seventh in the Big 12 Power Rankings in one article then in another article just an hour later predicts that they'll not only go bowling but will get the #6 bowl slot, you have to question either motive or logic.
Let's summarize: the seventh-place team in the Big 12 has never won more than four conference games, and averages only 3.