Who Will Win the Big 12 This Upcoming Season? | CFB | Big 12

Paul Catalina and Josh Neighbors discuss their thoughts on what team they think will win the Big 12 this upcoming season, their thoughts on the frontrunners in the conference, can an incoming Big 12 school win the conference, and more.
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[@davidbradham3515]

A few noisy fans on Twitter do not comprise most of the Utah fan base

[@40to38]

Out of the returning teams, UCF had the best offense... not my opinion... 487 yards per game. And they did it with QB injuries. They lost a good receiver in Baker, but they add KJ Jefferson and Jacurri Brown at QB. They add Penny Boone and Myles Montgomery to an already great RB room. They added so much WR depth that Agiye Hall had to walk on. This Malzahn offense is going to be ridiculous. Everyone is sleeping on them so nothing personal, but I just don't get it. I think people are just assuming they will have QB injuries and the worst defense in college football again despite all the talent and depth they've added.

[@llnlangston88]

Ok state has the most starters on both sides of the ball returning in the big 12. They will be in the running for the big 12 and possibly a playoff spot. Bowman isn’t top tier but he’s good and should be better. Last year he had to wait 3 games before finally taking the reins so his timing and production was down in some games. I expect that to be much improved this season esp with OG2 and more experienced Oline.

[@24158ded]

West Virginia being disrespected is insane.

[@NotChris3356]

it's WV bro, outside of 1 season they don't deserve respect

[@24158ded]

@@NotChris3356 Why wouldn’t they?

[@NotChris3356]

@@24158ded Bowl record: under 0.500, current coach: 1 game above 0.500, last title 2011 and only the big east, history record barely over 0.500. yeah bud you tell me how they deserve "more respect" they haven't earn it

[@24158ded]

@@NotChris3356So you base your predictions from 13 years ago?? I mean Neal Brown is ass but last year he did go 9-4 so why wouldn’t we expect them to do it again?

[@24158ded]

@@NotChris3356what’s your team? I’m curious to know there recent success

[@joejenkity1704]

I think it’s between k state, Oklahoma state and Texas tech. Maybe Utah but idk I’m not big on Utah.

[@debragrajales3766]

Love the B12!! I love not knowing who will win the conference before the season starts! So much parity leads to fun!! Before a single play we already know it’s likely Georgia, Ohio State, and FSU. But B12??? Real conference!

[@sarahmccoy1941]

Parity is another word for mediocrity.

[@jdwilmoth]

​@@sarahmccoy1941they should change the name of the conference to cream puffs r Us

[@jackernst612]

@jdwilmoth - KSU Alum here - Go tell that to the face of every Big XII head coach.

[@jdwilmoth]

@@jackernst612 what should I tell them something that they already know?

[@jdwilmoth]

@@debragrajales3766 yeah but you couldn't say that a couple of seasons back because you knew who was going to win it every year and that was Oklahoma

[@tmcobb04]

WVU Plays 6 of the "Top 7" teams, and mark my words we will beat at least 4 of them. The disrespect WVU is still getting after a 9 win season and retaining majority of offense production and rebuilding a much better defense is beyond me. Mountaineers win at least 9 games this season and ar in the running for Big 12 chip.

[@wrigs1]

Mid

[@neverbackdown1918]

You guys may win 9 games, but will probably be brutalized by injuries at the end for playing 11 P5 games. You may very well make the big 12 championship, but will probably get folded like a lawn chair because of injuries.

[@KAIROSMMA]

You all couldn’t get it done with Clint tricket and Kevin white it’s not happening with this team

[@ryanevans2655]

Sharpie in that L in Lubbock on Thanksgiving weekend tho. But seriously, let’s gooooo WVU against Penn St this weekend!!

[@OldSgtsMaj52]

Special Team Play in the Big 12 will decide a lot of these games this year. We are looking at a very close league. Some them penalties will come into play as well. Let's Go!

[@ChevelleSS-yr3gb]

I will say this. The Big 12 is going to have some great exciting games this season!

[@Ace0000087]

Iowa State beat Oklahoma State and Kansas State last year. They get KU this year at a neutral site and only lost to them by a TD. They play Texas Tech for homecoming. It's entirely feasible Iowa State wins all those games. That's why they are on this list. Sad that both of you counted them out right from the start without objectively looking at their schedule. Also.. WVU should be on this list.

[@EngineeringUSA]

they only beat Kstate because they didn't show up to play. And I can say that because four of the defensive starters were being tampered with before that game and were already essentially in the transfer portal. They didn't try in an effort to save themselves from getting hurt lol.

[@Ace0000087]

@EngineeringUSA LOL what are you talking about 🤣

[@tonyvBTFD]

Don’t sleep on our boys Noah and TMac!!!

[@TheYates27]

What’s funny is they keep using the schedule as an excuse but then later on it’s like oh that schedule wasn’t as tough as we thought

[@TheYates27]

WVU should be in the top 7 again disregarding us. We’ll see

[@wrigs1]

6-6 😂

[@TheYates27]

@@wrigs1 Do your homework on our team. We were 9-4, return everyone but Frazier and Bishop ( who allegedly wasn’t good anyway according to some ) and we had a strong portal class. If our Secondary comes together it’s over. Might as well crown WVU champ of B12 now

[@JoKeer80]

WVU winning the B12 this year!!!!

[@Benjamin-Tulsa]

Ask Ollie if he’s worried about WV

[@TheYates27]

@@Benjamin-Tulsa last season bruh

[@Nick-s5q]

WVU and UCF are both being disrespected badly

[@Wait_who_am_i]

Close to 20 starters are returning for the Iowa state team this year. Whatever your opinion, Iowa state has a ton of experience coming back. If there was ever a year for them to possibly upset the big 12, it’s this year. They’re getting slept on.

[@TheGamingAltar]

I hear what you're saying about seventhbyear QBs, but Frank Harris was a bad man over at UTSA

[@MrJara1018]

He was hobbled year 6 and 7

[@pastoraarontimberlake8551]

I’m saying WV.

[@Drumwolf62]

Mark it down people. WVU will be in the Big 12 championship game this year. I want all of these clowns to come back and make a video at the end of the season to applogize for once again under estimating WVU.

[@vernonsheldon-witter1225]

Utah or Kansas.

[@sarahmccoy1941]

Utah. This is football, not basketball.

[@ptg7712]

UU Hard not to pick the Utes.

[@s98247]

UCF

[@dbgii77]

Utah, KU, KSU and OSU are my top 4 teams in no order

[@travismckinley6825]

The hype on Jalon Daniels is a bit much to me. He's no doubt talented, but he's only beaten 3 teams with winning records in the past 2 seasons, no ranked teams, and got smacked around by every ranked team he did face in all 4 seasons he's played (He's 0-7 in those games). His record against Big 12 teams is 4-15 as well. The video game numbers against non-conference teams is nice, time to see if he can do it against real competition if he can stay healthy.

[@EngineeringUSA]

Someone gets it!!

[@Gr8H8ful8]

Where tf is WVU? What??

[@davidmcquain4053]

You included Texas Tech and did NOT include WVU? Inexcusable

[@jakerice468]

the fact you don’t include wvu and have texas tech is pitiful. continue the disrespect to the guys out east

[@spencermcintosh9223]

BTW…OK State has 3 4⭐️’s behind Bowman. As to last year, Bowman was splitting reps 3 ways until Game 4 when he was named the starter when at the same time he lost the top 2 WRs Strickland and Bray. He averaged 297 yd/gm as starter even tho he did not have the ability to build any chemistry/timing with the WRs until mid-season. He’ll be playing behind what has been rated the #1 OL in the country, handing the ball to OG2, and passing to 2 of top 5 returning WR in the B12 - Pressly and Owens exploded down the stretch and Strickland is back healthy. Anyway…..

[@ErX2234]

Would you take state OL over Texas?

[@MrWVUManiac87]

No West Virginia is a JOKE.

[@JoKeer80]

We will see buddy. WVU is loaded.

[@fordfastback8112]

Just 1 year ago, WVU fans were calling for your coach’s head..

[@JoKeer80]

@@fordfastback8112 Uninformed fake fans who didn’t understand that WVU was not equipped to handle player retention in the new NIL and transfer portal era. No coach would have been successful, now that part of the program has been solidified.

[@F3dB3aR]

The field only because UCF is still being discounted.

[@JoKeer80]

The Big12 media is garbage. WVU is the best team in the conference, it wouldn’t surprise me if TCU is really good as well. WVU vs Kst in the championship game.

[@yellowmartian]

My money is on Houston to win it all. Fritz got them boys ready to win right away!

[@ptg7712]

I wish that to be true but alas, pie in the sky. Hoping for a 6-6 season. Holgorsen destroyed the program and it will take a while to repair.

[@brandongribble]

The funniest thing you'll see all day 😂 it took wvu almost 6 years to rebuild after holgerson left it shambles.

[@ryann3391]

Finn has a breakthrough year, Baylor wins, should have taken the field

[@djvWOODSTOCK]

Way to float "Cam Rising, why are you still around?" and "he has a crippling knee injury" without ever connecting the two. Your willful ignorance is a stunning achievement.

[@sarahmccoy1941]

Utah or Colorado

[@sammyvillena9777]

Colorado?

[@ptg7712]

Not with that coach.

[@fordfastback8112]

We’re all like 2 parents extolling their kids attributes, not able to say whom we love the most. I predict anguish for us all. Stupid kids…

[@SvdSinner]

Sleeping on Iowa State is not smart.

[@MrJara1018]

Iowa St. just doesn’t get over the hump

[@brution2000]

Highest ranked team in the Big 12 will be #14 and will not make the CFP

[@chrisbrown7644]

Texas tech?...😂 is this a joke?

[@logotzip3967]

Arizona has little to no depth and a head coach that has a career losing record and OSU heavily depended on Ollie and he just got a DUI. Gimme Utah, K State, Kansas, or ISU

[@MrJara1018]

Kansas is going to have a weird season .

[@Yeeuu-teeuube-in]

All Kansas has to have is Jalon stay healthy

[@DWayne-ne5yh]

Texas Tech beat the sh*t out of KU last year…with 2nd and 3rd string QB

[@yellowmartian]

Texas Tech is weird. They always have so much hype but then crap the bed.

[@reddxt]

@yellowmartian Because they're having to play 3 QB's every season. They just can't stay healthy.

[@Yeeuu-teeuube-in]

Kansas had their 3rd string qb play the game too homie, and their 2nd string too.

[@aaronmurray9021]

Avery Johnson hasn't done anything. He may be great but you can't pick a conference winner with an unproven QB, right now it is all hype. Seriously?? Best QB in the conference.. Not just pre-season, but pre-anything... Gotta be kidding me.

[@EngineeringUSA]

he started one single game last year, and played in 8 total with 7 of those games adding up to about the same playing time as one single game. So in affect, he played in two full games last year. In those two single games, he accounted for 12 total TDs. 12 TOUCHDOWNS. 5 passing TDS/0 ints, and 7 rushing touchdowns.. With 5 of them coming in one single game. to say he hasn't done anything is being foolish. If the KSU coaching staff wasn't so hellbent on letting Will Howard stay as the starter last year, KSU would have been undefeated and won the conference lmao.

[@aaronmurray9021]

@@EngineeringUSA he has, by your own admission, played the equivalent of one game, to say KState is going to win the conference based on that is the definition of foolishness. I have nothing against him, or KState. Carts and horses….

[@aaronmurray9021]

Oh, and woulda coulda shoulda never cashed any checks.

[@EngineeringUSA]

@@aaronmurray9021 No, its more than one total game. He started in the pop tarts bowl and played the entire game, and he started as a WR in the TCU game, but played half that game. Still, 12 TDs in a total of 2 games worth of play time is nothing to overlook. Most QBs contribute to maybe 20-25 TDs on the ground and in the air in a full season. The fact that Avery did it in two total games of playing time is insane. His throwing % is also something that pepole look at from last year and say "wow he can't throw," but if you watch the pop tarts bowl, 8 of his throws were throw aways so that he didn't force a turnover or as to avoid losing yardage. Basically, he is very unselfish. Avery Johnson is going to light the big12 up as long as he doesn't get injured.

[@aaronmurray9021]

@@EngineeringUSA ok, whatever. You seem to think I am attacking your boy. I am not, I just think it is a little ridiculous to pick a conference champion based on that little bit of tape. I’ve seen kids come in with major hype and fall flat. Have to base predictions on game experience at the college level and he does not have enough to predict this type of success. Good luck this year.

[@JB-st1wr]

Go ahead and yall sleep Colorado mark my words

[@troutnbassinkayakfishin]

Colorado won 3 games last year. They may win 6 this year. Give them another 2 years to compete for a chip.

[@jdwilmoth]

I'm rooting for anybody especially Okie pokie State I hate them

[@reginaldwest-r8j]

You are not going to enjoy the big Xll as much as you otherwise would!

[@jdwilmoth]

@@reginaldwest-r8j the Big 12 is garbage they should change their name to cream puffs r Us I know I don't enjoy the Big 12 I'm glad my team is leaving

[@reginaldwest-r8j]

@@jdwilmoth Didn't TCU beat Michigan in the playoffs a few seasons ago?

[@jdwilmoth]

@@reginaldwest-r8j look what happened to them against Georgia and now they are total garbage

[@jakekelley7926]

This is laughably bad

[@mysteriousoklahoma777]

Who cares…

[@Goeers206]

Apparently you if you take the time to comment lol

[@mysteriousoklahoma777]

@@Goeers206 …SEC SEC SEC….Big 12 is an irrelevant league hence why the two best teams left. Lol don’t be butthurt…Boomer

[@Goeers206]

@@mysteriousoklahoma777 I hope you keep this same energy when OU goes 6-6 or less each year from here on out 🤣

[@mysteriousoklahoma777]

@@Goeers206 …it will take time but OU is a blue blood…so is Texas. Adios amigos…lol

[@OldSgtsMaj52]

Arkansas & Mizzou will pound the crap outta OU. BOOM!

[@deathsavearcade3951]

UCF