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Get in your mailbag questions right now if you're watching

us live on the show. And the first mailbag question I got on Facebook that I knew I was going

to address are the top five stories in the big 12 in 2025. And I will count those down one through five with an honorable mention on the back end.

So let's do it.

My number one story in the big 12 conference in 2025, and this is all sports,

is the disrespect of BYU and as a result, the Big 12 in the college football

playoff. And I know we've talked a lot about this over the last several weeks, but I really

believe that this is the top story in the Big 12 for the entire year. Because if I had told you

back in August, hey, we're going to have two

one-lost teams in the Big 12 championship game. And these teams are both in the top 15.

And the only way that one of these teams can get in is if they pull off an upset.

And by the way, they don't have a bad loss.

Their only loss is to the team they're playing already who's top four in the country.

You would have said what?

In a 12 team format, we can't sniff two big 12 teams get in with that scenario you just laid out.

You would have said that's crazy.

And that's because it was crazy.

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