Big 12 Conference

FOOTBALL.......what a great word! This is my FAVORITE time of year for sports. Baseball is over, Basketball is getting started and FOOTBALL is in the "Important" part of the season. The automatic win games are over and the GOOD GUYS are finally playing each other! Who cares to watch OSU or OU beat the School for the Blind, Lame, Sisters of the Poor and Computer Geeks? When the other team fights for a half to get a first down then they shouldn't be playing.

Now lets get to the HEART of the matter. How did the Big 12 South get SO MUCH BETTER than the Big 12 North? Look at Missouri, who is supposed to be the POWER of the North. In their 3 games against the south they LOST to OSU and Texas, and beat lowly Baylor with a last minute field goal. Then there is Kansas who is supposed to be a close second to Missouri. In their 3 games against the South they LOST to OU and Tech and will surely lose to Texas. That is 1 for 6 for the best two teams in the north! Nebraska went 1 - 2. Colorado is 0 - 2 and will lose to OSU. K-State went 1 - 2. And Iowa State 0 - 3. That is 3 wins and FIFTEEN LOSSES for the North. It's obvious that OSU, OU, Texas and Tech are far and away the best teams in the Big 12, with Baylor challenging for the fifth or sixth best team.

So what do we take out of this? One of the best states in the country for high school football is Texas, where most all of the Oklahoma and Texas schools players are from. Until the North gets some better athletes, nothing will change. Most of MU's best players will be gone after this year so get used to losing North!!! Bo Pelini will get Nebraska back on the right track as they seem to be able to recruit decent athletes and he's a good coach. Other than that..........Nothing!

So the big question for next year is................ will Baylor and Texas A&M be better than the whole north next year? Because the BIG FOUR won't be going down any time soon!

GO POKES!!!!