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Um, yeah. I made this whole post about how Missouri would beat Auburn, ASU would beat Stanford, Ohio state would beat MSU, and Florida State would slaughter Duke. Well I got the whole Florida State thing right, but I kinda guessed all the others wrong. sooooooooo..............................................Yeah.................I know a lot.....about football.............I promise.

So anyways, this last week was a huge week in College Football. All of the bigger conferences had their championship games, even the Big Twelve championship came down to this weekend.

I did not say too much about the Big 12 last post, so I will make it up now. The deal was that the top four teams in the Big 12 just happened to play each other on the same week. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State played each other in a game that they call Bedlam. Every year the OKST Cowboys come into the game with high hopes of winning and getting into a great bowl game in the post-season. But the Sooners almost always ruin their dreams just before they reach that goal. This year, if the Cowboys won, they would be the Big Twelve champions and they would automatically go to the Fiesta Bowl. The Cowboys were the huge favorites in the game as they had only lost a fluke game against West Virginia. The Sooners were ahead 20 to 17 with only 4 1/2 minutes left in the game and the Cowboys had to go 89 yards if they wanted a touchdown. They did exactly what they needed to do. After they scored, they gave to ball back to the Sooners with only 1:46 left on the clock. Ou only had their third string quarterback and the game seemed almost hopeless, but Blake Bell drove the team across the field in only one and a half minutes and they scored on a touchdown pass to Jalen Saunders. That last Ou touchdown basically sealed the game.

The Cowboy's loss meant that another game-that started just as the Bedlam game ended-would determine the Big 12 championship. Texas and Baylor started off the season with two different kinds of out-of-conference results. Texas, a team that was ranked #15 in the preseason, lost to BYU and Ole Miss in blowout losses because of an absolutely horrendous run defense. The school fired the defensive coordinator after the BYU loss and the new guy only had a few days to prepare his defense for Ole Miss. But somehow the Longhorns started winning and they had only lost once (against the Cowboys) since that time . The Baylor Bears started off their season white-hot while scoring about 70 points in each of their out-of-conference games. The Bears had the most potent offense in the country until they lost a star receiver-Tevin Reese- to a dislocated wrist. They lost in embarrassing fashion to Oklahoma State but that had been their only loss so far. Since both of these teams have only lost to the Cowboys, this game decided the outright champion of the Big 12. The Texas/Baylor game was VERY slow in the first half with each team scoring only one field goal. The Bears looked as if their once awesome offense had suddenly become inept- until the second half. The Bears defense continued to hold the Texas offense well while the offense suddenly got going. The final score was 30-10 Baylor. The Bears suddenly have won a Big 12 Championship and just finished the best season that they have ever had.

The bowl games have all been decided and they look like this in the Big 12
Sugar Bowl: #11 Oklahoma VS #3 Alabama
Fiesta Bowl: #6 Baylor VS #15 UCF
Cotton Bowl: #13 Oklahoma State VS #5 Missouri
Alamo Bowl: Texas VS #10 Oregon
Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl: Kansas State VS Michigan
Holiday Bowl: Texas Tech VS #16 Arizona State.

There are a bunch of games where the Big 12 looks out-gunned, but there are also some really good matchups. Hopefully the Big 12 can have a better bowl season than it had last year