The Big 12 enters 2019 toeing a line between order and chaos. On one hand, Oklahoma, one of the conference's two blue bloods, has won the past four conference titles and is favored to do the same in 2019. (FPI gives it a 70 percent chance, which is pretty insane for July.) The other conference blue blood, Texas, was the only Big 12 team to defeat the Sooners last year and faced OU in the conference title game to boot. And hey, guess who's favored to reach the title game again this year...
At the same time, though, Iowa State, without a conference title since 1912 and 3-9 just three years ago, was picked third in the preseason Big 12 media poll.