Big 12 Roundup - Week Six Standings & More

Big 12 conference roundup, standings, player and game of the week

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Conference Roundups
- ACC | Big East | Big 12 | Big Ten | C-USA | Ind.
- MAC | M-West | Pac 10 | SEC | Sun Belt | WAC

North Colorado | Iowa St | Kansas | Kansas State | Missouri | Nebraska
South Baylor | Oklahoma | Oklahoma State | Texas | Texas A&M | Texas Tech
Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5

Big 12 Game of the Week

Kansas 35 … Iowa State 33
In a tale of two halves, Iowa State got out to a 20-0 lead on a 16-yard Alexander Robinson run, an eight-yard catch from Marquis Hamilton, and two Grant Mahoney field goals. And then Kansas came out of the locker room roaring as Jake Sharp scored on a 67-yard pass play and a two-yard run, and Kerry Meier scored on catches from 23 and 21 yards out as part of a 35-7 run to go up 35-26. Iowa State got a two-yard Hamilton touchdown catch with 1:15 to play, and recovered the onside kick, but Austen Arnaud missed on all four of his passes.  

Big 12 Player of the Week
Texas Tech QB Graham Harrell completed 38-of-51 passes for 454 yards and six touchdowns, and he ran for a score in the win over Kansas State.

	Conference			Overall
North	W-L	PF	PA	W-L	PF	PA	STK
Missouri	1-0	52	17	5-0	267	100	W5
Kansas	1-0	35	33	4-1	176	94	W2
Kansas St	0-1	28	58	3-2	216	149	L1
Nebraska	0-1	17	52	3-2	167	130	L2
Colorado	0-1	14	38	3-2	121	132	L2
Iowa State	0-1	33	35	2-3	161	131	L3

	Conference			Overall
South	W-L	PF	PA	W-L	PF	PA	STK
Okla St	1-0	56	28	5-0	263	115	W5
Oklahoma	1-0	49	17	5-0	248	69	W5
Texas	1-0	38	14	5-0	236	57	W6
Texas Tech	1-0	58	28	5-0	241	92	W5
Baylor	0-1	17	49	2-3	154	144	L2
Texas A&M	0-1	28	56	2-3	114	154	L1

Saturday, October 4
12:30	Oklahoma 49 ... at Baylor 17 CFN Prediction: OU 44-20  OU -27
12:30	Kansas 35 ... at Iowa State 33 CFN Prediction: KU 27-17  KU -12.5
3:30	Texas Tech 58 ... at Kansas State 28 CFN Prediction: TT 45-34  TT -7
7:05	at Oklahoma St 56 ... Texas A&M 28 CFN Prediction: OSU 48-20  OSU -24.5
7:10	Texas 38 ... at Colorado 14 CFN Prediction: UT 26-17  UT -13.5
9:00	Missouri 52 ... at Nebraska 17 CFN Prediction: MU 36-23  MU -11

Games of the Week
Aug. 30 - Missouri 52 - Ill. 42
Sep. 6 - Colorado 31 ... EMU 24
Sep 13 - USF 37 - Kansas 34
Sep 20 - CU 17 - WVU 14 OT
Sep 27 - VT 35 - Neb 30
Oct 4 - KU 35 - ISU 33

Players of the Week
Aug. 30 - Colt McCoy, Texas
Sep. 6 - Dez Bryant, Ok St
Sep 13 - Sam Bradford, OU
Sep 20 - Colt McCoy, Tx
Sep 27 -Colt McCoy, Tx
Oct 4 - Graham Harrell, TT

Conference
Roundup

Baylor … Call this a measuring stick game. Baylor wasn't going to beat Oklahoma, and it got blown out of the water in the first quarter, but it kept on battling and Robert Griffin had yet another fantastic game. He didn't throw well, but he was fantastic on the move. Defensively, LB Joe Pawelek might seem a step slow compared to the Sooners, but he was in on seemingly every play with 13 tackles. Now the team has to put this in the past and come up with a win against a decent but beatable Iowa State.
Colorado … Texas really is good, but Colorado has to be better at home against everyone. The offense remains a problem. Cody Hawkins had a rough time, completing just 13-of-33 passes, but to be fair, he was under pressure all game long. The Buffs got down so quickly that there wasn’t time to get the running game going Rodney Stewart only ran for 27 yards on 12 carries while Darrell Scott only ran twice for four yards.
Iowa State  … Iowa State needed to get the chains moving in the second half to slow down the Kansas momentum, and couldn’t. Austen Arnaud had a great game both rushing and passing, and he tried to get things moving in the second half, but the defense didn’t help the cause giving up too many big plays, while the line didn’t get nearly enough pressure on Todd Reesing. Now the team has to show how mentally tough it can be. After collapsing at home in a game that could’ve changed around the program, the team has to come through with a tough outing against a Baylor team good enough to pull off the win at home.
Kansas … Kansas showed just how explosive it can be when everything is clicking. After an awful first half against Iowa State when everything was working, it seemed like the offense came out focused as Todd Reesing put every throw where it needed to be and Jake Sharp and Kerry Meier were fantastic. Now the goal has to be to put together a full 60 minutes. With no running game to speak of, that’s hard, so it’ll be up to Reesing to be sharp throughout. Losing four turnovers didn’t help, but again, give credit for overcoming the pumped up Cyclones in a tough environment.  
Kansas State … Kansas State is supposed to be able to keep up the pace in a shootout with a team like Texas Tech. It wasn’t even close. The team has yet to prove it can beat anyone with a pulse, and now comes the tough stretch of four road games in five dates. The one home game? Oklahoma … uh oh. Josh Freeman has to be better than 13-of-28 passes, and there has to be more of a running threat. 113 yards and a 3.1 yard team average aren’t going to cut it.
Missouri … Missouri showed just how powerful and strong the offense can be both through the air and on the ground. Nebraska didn’t stand a chance once everything started moving, while the Tiger defense did a great job of keeping the Husker attack in check after an early scoring drive. The best part about the Tiger offense? Chase Daniel isn’t running the ball. The star of the show isn’t taking any big shots as he’s spreading the ball around well.
Nebraska … 14 penalties, no running game, no defense, and an ugly blowout loss that was even worse than the 52-17 final score indicates. Nebraska did nothing against Missouri after the first ten minutes, and now, after failing two straight home tests, with the loss to Virginia Tech last week still fresh, the team needs to find something it can count on. But first, head coach Bo Pelini has to relax. He’s apologizing to everyone, he’s taking a blowout loss to a national title caliber team too hard, and he needs to realize that it’s going to take a little while. Nebraska is hardly a finished product.
Oklahoma … Ho hum. Oklahoma is going through the motions and blowing teams away. Of course, Baylor isn't Texas or Missouri, but it's still a decent young team that's emerging under Robert Griffin. The Sooners came into the lookahead game, with Texas coming up next week, and hung up 28 points in the first quarter to make it a laugher. Sam Bradford continues to get 15 days to throw, and that allows Manuel Johnson and Juaquin Iglesias chances to get deep. Yeah, the defense let up a bit in the overall intensity and Robert Griffin ran wild, but that's to be expected.
Oklahoma State … Everything’s working and everything’s clicking. Dez Bryant isn’t just playing like an All-American, he’s playing like a Biletnikoff winner. He’s also a devastating punt returner who all but ended the Texas A&M game with his return for a score. Yeah, the Aggies might be a mess, but the Cowboys took advantage of every chance and every mistake with five takeaways. There were 10 penalties, and A&M was able to make things a little interesting with some big plays, but there’s no real complaint with a 56-28 win.
Texas … Lookahead, schmookahead. Texas took care of business against Colorado from the opening snap with Chris Ogbonnaya making a few big plays in space, while Colt McCoy was Colt McCoy. The biggest plus was that McCoy wasn’t the leading rusher, getting just 11 carries, but it’s not like the running backs became workhorses. The defense remained great at getting into the backfield with three sacks, but the O line gave up four. Even so, considering the Oklahoma game is on everyone’s mind, this was a great game to get through. Colorado might not be great, but it’s still a tough team at home.
Texas A&M … Mike Goodson is a warrior. He taped things up to try to get out there and battle against Oklahoma State, but he only ran eight times in the blowout loss. Jorvorskie Lane is non-existent, Jerrod Johnson is fine, but he’s not quite ready for primetime, and the turnovers are flowing. Oklahoma State is ripping up everyone, but A&M needs to find something that works to be able to hang with teams like this. Things are going to get uglier before they get better unless everyone gets healthy, and unless the defense started to figure out something it can do right.
Texas Tech… The offense is just starting to hum at the right time. Kansas State was supposed to be a dangerous trap game in Tech’s first real road test of the season, and it was a joke. Graham Harrell was on point from the start, the running game was solid, Shannon Woods and Baron Batch keep on rolling, and the defense kept the middling Wildcat offense in check. Nebraska is struggling, so next week’s game needs to be another blowout, and Texas A&M is a mess, so there’s no reason to expect anything less than a 7-0 start before the meat of the schedule kicks in starting with a date at Kansas.