The preseason poll is out for the 2007 Big 12 football season, with first place votes in parentheses.
North
1. Missouri (16)
2. Nebraska (8)
3. Kansas State
4. Kansas
5. Colorado
6. Iowa State
South
1. Texas (16)
2. Oklahoma (7)
3. Texas A&M (1)
4. Oklahoma State
5. Texas Tech
6. Baylor
This will make it that much easier to root against Mizzou (like I needed a reason!) and I understand why Nebraska is second in the north, but I long for the day when Kansas and Kansas State are #1 and #2. How great would that be?
On a related note, may I suggest we banish Baylor from the Big 12? Baylor is a great school, but it's not in the same league as the rest of the Big 12 (and that's saying something). Baylor (enrollment 14,000) is the only school with fewer than 20,000 students (although K-State and Nebraska are close) and is the only private school in the conference, and is the whipping boy of Big 12 athletics. If only Baylor could be replaced by Arkansas, Houston, UTEP, North Texas, or even TCU (another small, private Christian school with a better sports tradition). If a case was made for each of the above teams, I think Baylor would be the fifth or sixth most convincing.
2 comments:
FYI Baylor is the whipping boy in the conference in Football and Basketball but they do compete and even at sometimes dominate in other sports like Baseball for example they are much better than either of the Kansas Schools and I am sure they hold there own in other sports as well. That said, I agree TCU or Arkansas would be a better fit. Would Arkansas lose money by leaving the SEC though?
~ Chad
Baylor won the National Championship in Men's Tennis a couple of years ago. Other than that…
Arkansas has all the old conference rivalries, but that may not necessarily be an upgrade money-wise.
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