We believe Riley has a point. ESPN often uses the fast-paced, high-scoring style of the Big 12 as an excuse to make the conference its punching bag, perpetuating a narrative that the conference plays an inferior brand of football.
ESPN’s latest “College Football Playoff Predictor” is yet another example of the network overlooking the Big 12. One of the subheads reads “the Big 12 is in big trouble”. And if the new predictor is to believed, that statement is very true.
The conference as a whole only has a 29 percent chance of reaching the playoff, by far the worst of the Power 5 schools.