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Four-Way Fight for Big 12
Published: 11/18/2012 3:19 PM
Last Modified: 11/18/2012 3:19 PM

There has been something riding on Bedlam Series football in recent years and it won’t change this year.
Oklahoma State’s rout of Texas Tech, Oklahoma’s rally to beat West Virginia coupled with Kansas State’s loss puts the Sooners and Cowboys back in the Big 12 Conference championship race.
OU now finds itself tied with Kansas State at the top of the standings with one loss but loses the tiebreaker to K-State on the head-to-head game.
OSU is a game back tied with Texas. The Longhorns own the tiebreaker with OSU on head-to-head.
Kansas State and Oklahoma appear on track to get BCS bowl games but both must win out.
What this means is that a four-way tie at the top of the Big 12 is not totally out of the question. All it takes is an OSU victory in Bedlam and a Texas victory over Kansas State. We could wind up with four teams with two losses at the top, just as many predicted in preseason might happen.
That is not a stretch.
Either way, K-State’s loss brought life back to OU, OSU and Texas in the conference race.
The only thing that appears certain at this point is that the Big 12 will not be a part of the national championship game.
Unlike OSU a year ago, who was in the discussion up until the final poll, K-State may have fallent too hard. OSU’s loss came to an unranked team on the road last year after an apparent winning field goal was ruled wide by inches.
It was not a loss by inches for the Wildcats. Baylor crushed Kansas State.
Oregon, if it can rebound and win out including a Pac-12 Championship Game, would have the best chance to get back in the discussion if Notre Dame gets knocked off by USC.
Either way, Bedlam has some meaning this week and as does the last two weeks of the Big 12 season.



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