For the frequent cries of a lack of parity in college football, it’s not hyperbole to say that the Big 12 has pulled a 180 and the conference is head over heels a third of the way through the 2022 season. Where you could once count on a perennial frontrunner to take the conference and run away with it—minus a few surprise upsets along the way, this season has destroyed that overused narrative and created perhaps the wildest and most entertaining conference in all of FBS (which is saying a lot considering we’re in the throes of extreme conference re-alignment conversations from coast to coast).