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Until Saturday: A show about college football

College Football's conference of chaos: Big 12 Power Draft Preview

Until Saturday: A show about college football

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Big 12, college football's roulette wheel that has 16 colors. Bruce Feldman joins Sam Khan Jr. and Justin Williams in breaking down the most chaotic, unpredictable and, arguably, most fun league in the sport. Kansas State and Utah may be early-season favorites, but where will Kansas, Arizona, West Virginia, Colorado and others fall in our power draft? Plus, we predict the conference championship game. Read Bruce Feldman's Freaks List: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5668892/2024/08/06/college-football-freaks-list-2024-bruce-feldman/ Read Bruce's Avery Johnson story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5668522/2024/07/30/avery-johnson-kansas-state-football/ Read Justin's story about the Big 12's shifting play style: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5608849/2024/07/02/new-big-12-identity-parity-conference-realignment/ Rundown: - How many teams could realistically win the Big 12? (2:45) - Kansas State (9:30) - Utah (12:15) - Oklahoma State (15:30) - Iowa State (18:00) - Kansas (20:00) - Arizona (23:00) - West Virginia (26:30) - UCF (30:30) - Colorado (35:30) - Texas Tech (41:15) - TCU (46:15) - Baylor (50:30) - BYU (56:30) - Cincinnati (1:00:00) - Arizona State + Houston (1:05:00) - Superlatives (1:09:30) Watch Until Saturday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UntilSaturday Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to the FREE Until Saturday newletter:: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Hosts: Sam Khan Jr. (@skhanjr), Justin Williams (@Williams_Justin) & Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) Executive producer (audio + video): Cam Molina (@commentatorcam) Supervising producer: Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinezDC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Until Saturday, I'm joined the day by Bruce Feldman Justin Williams. I'm your host Sam Khan and we are going to talk about Big 12 football this season.

0:23.4

We're gonna do a little bit of a preview.

0:25.1

We're calling it our power draft preview.

0:27.1

If you guys have listened earlier this week

0:29.6

on the until Saturday feed,

0:31.1

Chris Vanini, Cameron T. Robinson and Scott

0:32.9

Drman did a similar preview for the Big Ten where we're going to draft teams.

0:37.1

We hope you check that out. If you didn't, be sure to check your feed. We'll

0:40.0

have more of these to come as we preview the college football season, but we thought

0:44.5

it would be a fun thing to do in a different way to preview the conference rather than the

0:48.0

traditional just go team by team and let's talk about all the players.

0:51.4

We figured we'd try to draft these teams because I think this is fair to say maybe the deepest conference and at least the most competitive conference top to bottom in the country. But before we get on to that, how are you welcome to the show I'm doing well good to be on with you guys today so I'm excited I'm the only guy here without a beard so I realize that especially with my hat on backward I probably look very immature.

1:17.0

Yeah, it's okay. We're I think we're pro hat backwards guys over here.

1:21.0

Justin are you are you team hat backward?

1:23.8

Yeah, not cool enough to pull it off,

1:25.4

but I'm definitely, I would if I could for sure.

1:28.2

Pro backwards hat.

1:30.1

Yeah, so before we get into this preview and into the draft, I wanted to discuss a little bit about the conference as a whole.

1:37.5

As we know, the big 12 has had a lot of change this off season, really the last two seasons with four new teams added

1:44.7

before the 23, 2023 season and four new teams added before this season.

1:49.6

The four former PAC 12 teams, Arizona, State, Colorado, and Utah are now in.

1:55.2

I was reading Bill Connolly, works at ESPN, tweeted this a few weeks ago in talking about

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