Figuring out the Big 12 North race is like playing scrabble with a dyslexic partner

I received an email this morning telling me that tickets to the Big 12 Football Championship will go on sale November 5th.  The question at hand though is does anyone have a clue who will be playing in it?

Last weekend made a mess of the north, so much so that Kansas State and Colorado are playing for first place next week.  These are two teams that had either just lost by 52 points a week ago or had just one victory on the season.  This scintillating matchup was made possible by the following.

First, Nebraska put themselves up for fraud alert after getting manhandled at home by Texas Tech in front of the second largest crowd ever to watch a game in Lincoln.  Ouch!  Bo Pellini had to go to a true freshman quarterback to get their only touchdown of the game.  The Huskers have now scored offensive TD’s in just two of 12 quarters played against BCS schools.

Kansas then choked on a bone against the Buffaloes Saturday night.  The Jayhawks have no one to blame but themselves for this one.  Two turnovers that gave the Buffs the ball inside the KU five accounted for 14 points in the 4 point loss.  Throw in an abysmal running game and now Kansas has to find a way to beat Oklahoma in Lawrence this Saturday or their title hopes are in deep trouble.

Iowa State even has themselves looking at getting back to five hundred in the league race if they can win next week against the Big Red in Lincoln.  Hey, not out of the question.

Heck, if Missouri can pull off an upset of Texas in Columbia Saturday night, they’re back in the race.

The only thing that was settled last weekend was that the Sooners are having an unlucky season of epic proportions.  Sam Bradford was knocked out of the game again in the early going and it doesn’t make much sense for him to try and come back this season.  Texas outslugged OU in a sloppy affair.  Colt McCoy was battling through the flu and the Longhorns did what they had to to win another game.

Tech’s win in Lincoln put them back in the race in the south and Oklahoma State’s win over Missouri has them unbeaten in the south, so if they can just make it through against Baylor next week, the Cowboys have Texas at home in Stillwater on Halloween night.   Spooky!  Got all that?  

Glad you did, because I don’t know what to expect next.