Andy Staples on the College Football Coaching Carousel, Big 12 Race & Playoff Picture
Heartland College Sports: Big 12 College Football Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.9 • 836 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On3's Andy Staples joins Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo to talk all things college football — from the Big 12 title race and Playoff picture to the latest twists in the coaching carousel.
They cover which Big 12 teams still have a path to the playoff, what coaching jobs could shake up the sport, and how the Big 12 stacks up nationally in November.
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| 0:00.0 | Andy Staples on three sports joining us on Heartland College sports covering the Big 12. I'm Pete Mundo. Thank you, as always, for being a part of the show, the YouTube channel, the podcast, the radio show. You know what to do? Hit that like button, subscribe as always. And we are grateful you're here, Andy. Thanks, as always, for the time. And just take me through where you think this Big 12 is at right now. when you look at the landscape, |
| 0:23.8 | BYU, Texas, Tech. for the time and just take me through where you think this Big 12 is at right now when you look |
| 0:22.8 | at the landscape, BYU, Texas Tech this weekend. What are you seeing from this conference? |
| 0:27.9 | Well, I remember going back to Big 12 Media Days and Brett Yormark getting out there saying |
| 0:32.4 | that it's great that everybody thinks 10 teams can win the title, but you need to get some separation at the top for the health of the conference. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, they got it. |
| 0:42.3 | They got it. |
| 0:43.1 | And this game seems to be what that was all culminating with. |
| 0:49.5 | Now, obviously, Utah is still there, but they've got the two losses. |
| 0:52.3 | And then Cincinnati's only got the one. |
| 0:54.1 | But you do have kind of a clear upper echelon at the conference. |
| 0:58.7 | We have a pretty good idea that the two participants in the title game are coming from those four teams. |
| 1:05.3 | And I think this time last year, we didn't have anything like that. |
| 1:08.1 | And then you look at Texas Tech and where they are statistically, especially |
| 1:14.1 | on defense, whatever they paid for the roster is worth it. |
| 1:19.3 | Like, they're getting their money's worth because, you know, I'm looking at counting stats, |
| 1:24.6 | advanced stats, it doesn't seem to matter. |
| 1:26.0 | They are dominant on defense. And that's |
| 1:29.1 | what they were paying for. And really, you know, if Baron Morton can stay healthy, this is a team |
| 1:36.4 | that can make the playoff and do damage in the playoff. And when you look at that, someone asked us |
| 1:43.0 | this in our mailbag we did earlier in the week. Is the Big 12 better off with two or, I mean, there's still this like outside chance of three, but let's say two. Is the Big 12 better off with two teams in the playoff that lose early or one team in the playoff that makes a deep run? What do you think? I think every league wants a team that makes a deep run that goes to the national title game or wins the national title. |
| 2:03.2 | Because that means there's somebody from your league that we're talking about for a month straight. |
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