Well, just a couple of weeks left in the season. Where the heck did it go? I'm Pete Mundo. We're

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Big 12 today on Sirius XM, Channel 375, and also of the franchise 1077 in Oklahoma City.

Gabe, when you look at this conference this year, do you go Baylor?

Do you go Kansas State?

What's been the biggest surprise to you right now in the Big 12?

I mean, you can go the Baylor route and clearly what Matt Rule has done,

even after the disappointing loss, after blowing that big

lead against Oklahoma last weekend, you still have to give that team a ton of respect.

I think they earned a lot of people's respect with their performance in that football game,

and for Matt Rule to have that team where it's at to most likely playing

for a Big 12th championship says a lot about him, says a lot about those players working

through adversity, then persevering through the last couple of seasons.

It's extremely impressive, but I'm going to go with a more negative route.

You've got to look at Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns with four losses.

I mean, this was a team that came into the season with a lot to replace on defense, no doubt.

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