A huge win over the weekend for the Texas football program over the previously undefeated and No. 6 ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys put this team back in the AP Poll, at No. 22, and back in the conversation near the top of the Big 12 standings. Entering last weekend, it looked like Oklahoma State was the clear front runner to make the College Football Playoff and win the Big 12.
But fourth-year head coach Tom Herman and the Longhorns threw the Big 12 into further chaos by muddying the waters for them and the Oklahoma schools at the top of the conference standings.