Week 6 Big 12 Picks
Can the Pokes pick themselves up off the mat?
Ah, another week in the wild and wooly Big 12. Two thirds of our games this week, as usual, are straight up coin-flips.
Trent last week: 3-4 (.428)
Trent overall: 38-21 (.644)
Nate last week: 4-3 (.571)
Nate overall: 41-18 (.694)
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Friday
Houston 23, TCU 28. These two are 13-13 against each other all-time, but TCU has won the last nine. More to the point: Houston has only scored 26 points in its first five games this season: good for an average of 5 points per game. The Cougs haven’t crossed the goal line a single time in their past two games, and only managed a touchdown the week before. Ouch.
Saturday
West Virginia 23, Oklahoma State 27. At this point I feel like OSU is only favored because the Pokes are at home, and it feels hard to believe a Mike Gundy-coached football team with this much talent could lose a third game in a row. Also: the Mountaineers have only beaten the Cowboys once in their last nine tries. That said, I think if Alan Bowman plays as poorly this week as he had the past two, it’s time to see what Zane Flores can do (I am totally uninterested in another Garrett Rangel experiment).
Saturday
Baylor 24, No. 16 Iowa State 38. Suddenly ISU finds itself at the top of the Big 12 standings alongside… BYU?
UCF 35, Florida 28. Kind of weird to say it, but UCF has the much better program than the Gators right now.
Kansas 24, Arizona State 27. A weird, bad year for KU so far.
Texas Tech 38, Arizona 41. Texas Tech is back in shootout mode. Arizona is coming off a thumping by KSU followed by a solid win against a top ten-ranked Utah program. I’ll take the home team in this Big 12 After Dark matchup.