In the past five years, Baylor has gone 1-8, 4-5, 8-1, 2-7 and 7-2, respectively, in Big 12 play.
Texas has gone 7-2, 2-7, 5-3 and 3-6 in the past four.
Oklahoma State went 3-6 in 2018 and 8-1 in 2021. TCU went 7-2 in 2017 and has gone under .500 in three of the past four years.
No power conference offers upward (or downward) mobility like the Big 12. Sure, there are some stable entities -- Oklahoma hasn't lost more than two conference games since 2014, Texas Tech hasn't won more than three since 2015 and Kansas hasn't won more than one since 2008 -- but for just about everyone else, their stock can rise or fall pretty dramatically from one year to the next.