Week 10 Big 12 Picks

What the hell is going on in Stillwater?

Since the year 2000 I have watched either on TV or in person or listened to on the radio probably all but a handful of OSU’s football games. I have seen the full gamut of Oklahoma State in the past quarter century, from total ineptitude to near-dominance and everything in-between. In those years there was a lot of really terrible defense—oftentimes defense was the only thing stopping OSU from truly becoming a dominant team—but I have never seen anything like what happened last week against Baylor. In the nineteen years of Mike Gundy’s tenure I have never seen a defensive unit just totally quit like that. It was disturbing to watch.

Trent last week: 3-4 (.428)

Nate last week: 5-2 (.714)

Trent overall: 52-33 (.611)

Nate overall: 58-27 (.682)

Texas Tech 31, No. 11 Iowa State 38. Tech has won the last two games in this series by a grand total of seven points.

No. 17 Kansas State 35, Houston 24. A win here would move KSU to 8-1, with a pretty favorable rest of the way: K-State faces ASU, Cincy and ISU to finish the year. That ISU game could determine which team goes to the championship game.

Arizona 27, UCF 35. This is Arizona’s second straight conference game against a team the Wildcats have never played.

Arizona State 34, Oklahoma State 20. I don’t want it to happen this way and part of me can’t even really imagine it, but something seems really broken right now for Mike Gundy’s program.

TCU 42, Baylor 45. Kind of hard to believe, but TCU has taken eight of the past nine in this one.