Well, we've hit about the halfway mark of the college football and big 12 season.

I'm Pete Mundo.

We're Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of Heartland College Sports.com, your independent

Big 12 digital media outlet.

And here to talk about that.

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Let's welcome in, Dan Rubinstein, the solid verbal.

Dan, Midway Point of the Big 12, what do you make of this conference and where it stands as we hit late October?

It's in an interesting spot.

We've seen entertaining games. We've seen teams, just like,

you know, in any conference that exceeded expectations, that haven't lived up to expectations.

We've seen injuries sort of change things dramatically. And we've seen, I think, a couple of

really pleasant surprises and a couple of games that have been just terrific TV. So, you know, we're always quick to, and I say that the Wii is in couple of games that have been just terrific TV.

So, you know, we're always quick to, and I say that we as in college football fans, to say, okay, is the Big 12 behind the ACC, is it ahead of the Big 10?

How does it fall compared to the Pac-12?

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