College Football Roundup! (OK, Just a Big 12 Roundup)

Well, the Aggies started to look a lot better this weekend without even playing.

It was not a good weekend for the Big 12. Some teams took care of business this weekend. Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Nebraska, and Kansas dominated in their games, which is what major conference members are supposed to do against Idaho State, Rice, Arkansas State, and UTEP.

If you only saw the final score of texas vs. Wyoming, you'd think they fell into that category. 41-10? That sounds pretty good. But 10-13 (Wyoming) at the half? Not so much. As far as I could tell, the 'sips went in at halftime, and Mack was like, "Hey Colt? Remember how you finished second in Heisman voting last year?" And then Colt was like, "Oh, right. That does sound familiar." Missouri was even worse, not taking the lead against Bowling Green at Missouri until there were five minutes left in the game. Tsk tsk, Missouri.

The biggest disappointment for the conference was of course Oklahoma State. See ya later, national title buzz and top five ranking! (Or, more likely, see ya perhaps not for another coupla decades.) I'll be honest with you, I'm a little annoyed that the Aggies declined to hire Houston's Kevin Sumlin before last season. But then again, maybe Mike Sherman will be able to beat Okie State too? (Stop it, Rachel. Stop getting your hopes up!)

Finally, in the "sad and getting sadder" category, we have half the Big 12 North. Iowa State lost by 32, but to Iowa, so it's actually less sad than K-State's loss by two points to the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. I wonder how much U La La was paid to play K-State? I'm going to post my Bill Snyder poster again.


But the most car-wreckily fascinating story in the conference is the breathtaking awfulness of Colorado. I actually thought they might have a shot at turning the corner this year, but aparently they turned the wrong one. Last week they were beaten by their poor little brother Colorado State at home; this week they were crushed at Toledo (Toledo!). Before the season started, soon-to-be-fired coach Dan Hawkins promised "Ten wins, no excuses," but that's going to be mathematically impossible the next time they lose. Hey, maybe next week at Wyoming! What's going on, Colorado?!

Even though I'm trying not to get my hopes up for the Ags, I can't help but start to mentally upwardly adjust my conference-win estimate.