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
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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)
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| 0:45.5 | Thank you. Welcome to Until Saturday. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm joined today by Bruce Feldman, Justin Williams. |
| 0:56.3 | I'm your host, Sam Khan, and we are going to talk about Big 12 football this season. We're going to do a little bit of a preview. We're calling it our power draft preview. If you guys have listened earlier this week on |
| 1:02.2 | the Until Saturday feed, Chris Finini, Cameron T. Robbins, and Scott Docterman did a similar preview for the Big 10 where we're going to draft teams. |
| 1:09.6 | We hope you check that out. If you didn't, be sure to check your feed. We'll have more of these to come as we preview the college football season. But we thought it'd be a fun thing to do in a different way to preview the conference rather than the traditional just go team by team. And let's talk about all the players. We figured we'd try to draft these teams because I think this is fair to say maybe |
| 1:29.0 | the deepest conference and at least the most competitive conference top to bottom in the |
| 1:33.4 | country. But before we get on to that, Bruce, how are you? Welcome to the show. I'm doing well. Good |
| 1:38.9 | to be on with you guys today. So I'm excited. I'm the only guy here without a beard, so I realized, especially with my hat on backward, I probably look very immature. |
| 1:49.8 | That's okay. I think we're pro hat backwards guys over here. Justin, are you team hat backward? |
| 1:56.1 | Yeah, not cool enough to pull it off, but I'm definitely, I would if I could for sure. Pro |
| 2:00.8 | backwards heads. Yeah. So before we get into this preview and into the draft, I wanted to |
| 2:07.5 | discuss a little bit about the conference as a whole. As we know, the Big 12 has had a lot of |
| 2:12.5 | change this offseason, really the last two seasons with four new teams added before the 23, |
| 2:17.9 | 2020 season and four new teams added before this season. The four former Pact 12 teams, |
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