Throughout this past offseason, there was a lot of hype around just how entertaining the Big 12 race would be in 2024. Through the first five weeks, the league has lived up to that and then some.
If you love college football and the crazy unpredictability that makes it the best sport on earth, the Big 12 conference is for you.
From a pure entertainment perspective, the Big 12 offers you action that no other league can on any given Saturday. With back-and-forth games that provide intriguing betting scenarios and down-to-the-final-seconds action, the Big 12 has quickly become the most fun conference in college football to try and predict — even if it is impossible.
According to a Big 12 release, half of the games between Big 12 opponents in the first two weeks have been decided by one score. Check it out.
Week 3 (Sat, Sept. 14)
- UCF 35, TCU 34 | TCU (-2.5)
Week 4 (Sat, Sept. 21)
- Utah 22, Oklahoma State 19 | OSU (-1)
- BYU 38, Kansas State 9 | KSU (-7.5)
- Cincinnati 34, Houston 0 | UC (-3.5)
- West Virginia 32, Kansas 28 | WVU (-2.5)
- Texas Tech 30, Arizona State 22 | TTU (-3.5)
- Colorado 38, Baylor 31 (F/OT) | CU (-1.5)
Week 5 (Sat, Sept. 28)
- Arizona 23, Utah 10 | UT (-9.5)
- Iowa State 20, Houston 0 | ISU (-16.5)
- Kansas State 42, Oklahoma State 20 | KSU (-5)
- BYU 34, Baylor 28 | BAY (-3.5)
- TCU 38, Kansas 27 | KU (-1.5)
- Colorado 48, UCF 21 | UCF (-15)
- Texas Tech 44, Cincinnati 41 | TTU (-7.5)
Perhaps even crazier than the fact that half of the games have been decided by one score is how the underdogs have fared thus far.
In the 14 total Big 12 games thus far, the underdog is 8-6-0 against the spread and 7-7 straight up. In other words, the underdog wins the game half the time. Where else in college football are you going to find that level of parity?
