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Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops stirred up a healthy debate this week when he took a few shots at the SEC, the same league that's captured the last seven national championships. "So they've had the best team in college football," Stoops told the Tulsa W...

OKLAHOMA Record: 4-1, 2-1 Big 12 The Sooners have had the most up and down (and up again) season of any team in the Big 12. Oklahoma began the year looking like the Big 12's best team and the league's best hope for a national title. After a ...

WEST VIRGINIA Record: 5-1, 2-1 Big 12 It was all going so well. The Mountaineers had scaled the mountain, looking like the Big 12's best team and ready for the task of trying to stay there for the next six weeks. That didn't take long. The f...

Forty members of the media voted in the Big 12 preseason poll. Of those 40, 32 cast a vote for Oklahoma as the Big 12's best team. I was one of them, but if the other 31 were anything like me, they mostly cast it as a default vote. Oklahoma's the ...

Here's a few other things we learned over the course of the 2011 season in the Big 12. On Wednesday, we looked back on what we learned during the bowl season. 1. The Heisman isn't what you thought it was. The best player on the best team? Not a...

Here's how the Big 12 sits heading into the bowl season. 1. Oklahoma State (11-1, 8-1, LW: 1) The Cowboys made it clear on Saturday night that they're the Big 12's best team. The defense shined on a big stage, and the offense returned to form afte...

College GameDay posed the question yesterday, and truth be told, I can't reason an answer in my head. So, I leave it up to you. Who's the best team in Texas this year? Is it undefeated Houston? The No. 11 Cougars are the highest-ranked team in ...

Big weekend of conference play with a pair of Big 12 teams getting upset means lots of movement. Here goes. 1. Oklahoma (4-0, 1-0, last week: 1): Sooners are still looking like the Big 12's best team, but Alabama and LSU have passed them in the me...

Time to hand out some awards for a job well done in Week 1. Robert Griffin III, QB, Baylor: Griffin had the biggest stage of any team in the Big 12 so far this season, and he seized it with a career game. He played the best team with the best defe...

Not even days after last season ended, the whispers began. "You know, OU brings back a pretty good team next year. Maybe even the best team." Did the Sooners deserve a No. 1 ranking in the preseason? Months later, 60 coaches and 60 members o...

Few, if any, would disagree that Oklahoma opens 2011 as the class of the Big 12. But who is No. 2? It's an increasingly intriguing debate. You'll see Oklahoma State and Texas A&M flipped in polls from time to time, and there's plenty to ...

A group of fans met Iowa State back in Ames after the team arrived home from its win over Texas. Also, if you haven't seen the video from after the game in the locker room, here you go. Kansas' homecoming wasn't very well-attended. Neither was Texa...

1. Missouri is the best team in the Big 12. They proved it on the field, defending their home turf against the No. 1 team in the country. The Tigers won solidly and announced to everybody that they would be a factor, if not the favorite, in the Big 1...

Two of the best team names from my fantasy league from college that drafted last night: Texas Chainsaw Massaquoi and Matt Schaub Lob Blog, the rare, seamless intersection of football and Arrested Development. My weak effort: 2nd That Emo Shonn. De...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Here are a few things I'll be watching for from tonight's Texas-Texas A&M game. For Texas: Don't going changing: The Longhorns have developed into the most consistent and best team in the Big 12 this season -- al...

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin AUSTIN, Texas -- It wasn't the kind of resounding conquest that would give Texas any claim to being the nation's best team -- even as other contenders around them either struggled or lost earlier in the day. Heck, ...