Recapping the Week in Big 12 Football

J.W. Walsh (dallasnews.com)

Kansas State keeps making me look like a fool.  Again and again, I keep picking the Wildcats to lose a game.  They have more than proving me wrong as they demolished WVU this weekend.  Collin Klein is now the clear front-runner for the Heisman trophy.  It will be interesting to see what he can do against Texas Tech's defense on Saturday.

West Virginia is slipping fast.  That is back-to-back weeks of being dominated.  Geno Smith and West Virginia, who a couple weeks ago were thought to be the best offense is the country, have only scored 14 points in the past two games.  Somewhat surprisingly, the Mountaineers didn't fall all that much in the BCS rankings as they are now down to 19.  They now have to travel to Fort Worth to take on TCU.

Remember when we thought Texas was going to have a GREAT defense?  Lulz.  God dammit Texas, your defense is full of great talent, but you don't even come close to living up to it.  You've given up 30 points five straight games.  I'm really not sure who is to blame here, Manny Diaz or the players themselves.  Good thing UT's offense was clicking with Joe Bergeron scoring 5 TDs himself.

Oklahoma State's backup is about 50 times better than Iowa State's starter.  Iowa State's offense was pathetic would be the understatement of the week.  I'll say it again, ISU is one decent Big 12 QB away from being a top-15 team.  It amazes me that OSU's freaking backup, freshman J.W. Walsh, is that much better than ISU's Steele Jantz and Jared Barnett.  Sadly, J.W. Walsh injured his knee in the contest and will miss the rest of the season.  That makes it even more embarrassing for ISU as Walsh played an entire game with a season-ending injury and still passed for 415 yards.  On a side note, what did you think of Okie State's uniforms this week?

Trevone Boykin is going to be a stud.  I wasn't the only one who thought TCU was doomed after Casey Pachall got picked up on a DWI.  With only two days of practice, Boykin had an average starting debut against Iowa State.  After that, Boykin has been excellent, throwing 8 TDs and only 2 INTs. TCU led by Boykin rallied late and pushed a very good Texas Tech team to the brink.  As the kids would put it, Boykin has some serious swaaaaaagg for only being a freshman.

Texas Tech also has some swag.  For the Red Raiders to keep fighting after blowing a 10-point lead with under 3 minutes to go shows the character of this team.  If Texas Tech beats KSU this weekend, I will not be all that surprised.  This team is legit.

Oklahoma is good, Kansas is not.  What's new?

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