It is winners and losers time in the Big 12. Welcome in. I'm Pete Mundo. We are Heartland

College Sports.com where we cover the Big 12 conference. And as always, glad you're here. You

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each and every time this week, I am going to give you three winners and three losers tied to

what's going on and what's gone on this past week across the Big 12 conference. And we'll start,

since you guys like to start with the winners, we'll

start with our three winners this week. At number one, my first winner of the week, and the

winners are in no particular order, so don't look at it like biggest winner. But I'm going to go

into Big 12 recruiting as having a great week and being one of my biggest winners of the week.

All right. The Big 12 is not getting enough credit for how it's recruiting as of late with

multiple top 50, top 100 players for the class of 2026 in football going to big 12 schools, going to places like

Houston, going to BYU, going to Texas Tech. I mean, you have some really good players coming

into the big 12. And it's in part because of what they're doing on the recruiting trail, how they're mixing in

the NIL, and how they're playing in the big leagues now. And when you look at some of the team

rankings, the big 12 for the class of 26 does not have a top 10 team right now. But what if I told

you this two years ago? What if I told you that we'd be,

you know, inching closer towards the 2026 signing class? You know, a lot of these classes are more or less

filled. You've got 20, 25 commits for most of these top 25 schools. And what if I told you that BYU, Baylor, and Texas Tech would all

have classes ranked higher than the Oklahoma Sooners? If I told you that two years ago,

knowing that OU was leaving for the SEC, and the Big 12 was trying to figure out how to replace them what to do.

And I said, yeah, the Big 12 would have three teams ranked ahead of the Oklahoma Sooners.

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