Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a harrowing, bleak tale of a father and a son in post-apocalyptic America who are traveling along an unnamed road, searching for security and evading cannibals and thieves along the way. It is depressing and heartwrenching, and at various points throughout the book you just want your intrepid heroes to find some sense of home. As the book progresses, you realize that it’s not the cannibals and the robbers who are the enemy of the father and son, but instead it’s the road itself that is their greatest foe.
This is all one big long extended allegory to say: nobody on the Big 12 can win on the dang road.