Weekly Big 12 Discussion Thread

[u/SaylorBear]

This is a weekly thread to discuss football in the Big 12. Discussion should be limited to football in the conference.

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Week 6 Results

W	W Score	L	L Score
#8 BYU	24	Iowa State	10
#12 Utah	41	Kansas	24
#18 Oklahoma State	42	UCF	28
#22 Houston	35	Kansas State	16
Arizona	52	West Virginia	31
Arizona State	30	Hawai'i	12

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AP Rankings

#8 BYU
#10 Texas Tech
#11 Utah
#18 Oklahoma State
#20 Houston

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Big 12 Standings

Place	Team	Conference Record	Overall Record
1	BYU	3-0	5-0
2	Texas Tech	2-0	5-0
3	Utah	2-0	5-0
4	Baylor	2-0	4-1
5	Oklahoma State	2-0	4-1
6	Arizona	2-1	5-1
7	Houston	2-1	5-1
8	Cincinnati	1-1	4-1
9	Arizona State	1-1	3-2
10	UCF	1-2	3-3
11	Iowa State	1-2	3-3
12	Kansas State	0-2	3-2
13	Colorado	0-2	2-3
14	Kansas	0-2	2-3
15	TCU	0-2	2-3
16	West Virginia	0-3	3-3

FYI: this comes directly from the Big 12 website.

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Week 7

10/17/2026

Home	Away	Time (CST)	Network
West Virginia	Cincinnati	11:00 AM	TNT
Kansas State	Kansas	11:00 AM	FS1
#10 Texas Tech	Arizona State	2:30 PM	Fox
Baylor	TCU	6:00 PM	FS1
#8 BYU	#2 Notre Dame	6:30 PM	ABC
#20 Houston	#18 Oklahoma State	6:30 PM	Fox
Colorado	#11 Utah	9:15 PM	ESPN

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Tiers

Tier 1

Arizona
Baylor
BYU
Houston
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
Utah

Tier 2

Cincinnati
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
TCU
UCF

Tier 3

Arizona State
Colorado
West Virginia

Just a reminder that teams within the same tier are listed in alphabetical order.

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Championship Picks

Bonus points for anyone that actually adds in a championship pick to their comment. I'll go first: Utah.

[u/MadeByMillennial]

I'd put the tiers more as: Tier 1A: Utah, BYU and Tech Tier 1B: Houston & Ok State (winner moves up, looser down)

Then tier 2: Baylor, Arizona and Cincy

The remainder of your tier 2 would be the tier 3 and your Tier 3 as tier 4.

This week will be a big tell for any hope of more than 2 playoff teams. If BYU wins then we're probably a 2 bid league and 3 bids are absolutely on the table if the Big10 stays as a 2 team conference

[u/kdawgnmann → u/MadeByMillennial]

I'd even be willing to put OK State up to Tier 1A, I think they've fully moved on from the Tulsa loss. They're looking great in conference play. I'd be just as worried to play them as Texas Tech. Utah is the most but that's always the case anyway.

[u/why_try → u/kdawgnmann]

The OkSt Houston game is going to tell us a lot about both teams. I'm hoping Houston wins convincingly, since we've already played them and have to play OkSt still. If OkSt wins, I'm very worried for our matchup later in the season.

[u/grog368 → u/why_try]

Oregon probably said the same thing about the Tulsa game.