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Adam, let's get right into it with this conference.

Oklahoma, Iowa State, and the Big 12 championship game.

I don't know what your preseason prediction was up the top of my head, but how surprised are you that this is the

matchup we're going to get in just over a week from now? You know, I'm in some ways not surprised

because, right, Oklahoma has dominated the conference. They've won a number of big 12 championships in a row,

and it was just going to come down to who was going to play them. You know, was it going to be Texas? Was it going to be Oklahoma State, a team that had a lot of preseason hype?

Or Iowa State.

You know, Iowa State, I believe, was preseason top 25.

They had Brock Purdy coming back.

I thought they were a team that just found many ways to lose games last year.

But they projected to be a strong team.

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