Big 12 Football Power Rankings, Week 1: Is Oklahoma untouchable?

By Dante Pryor | Sep 4, 2019

NORMAN, OK - SEPTEMBER 01: Quarterback Jalen Hurts #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners warms up before the game against the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 1, 2019 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Cougars 49-31. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /

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How will Big 12 football shake out this season? Will the Sooners win the Big 12 again? Is Texas really back? Is there a challenger we won’t see coming?

Everyone in the Big 12 won their games in Week 1 although the competition wasn’t necessarily fierce (no disrespect Nicholls State, Stephen F. Austin and James Madison).

Jalen Hurts looks like he wants to be in New York to win the Sooners a third straight Heisman Trophy. The Iowa State Fighting Matt Campbell’s survived a scare against Northern Iowa. Texas looked good against Louisiana Tech and TCU beat a team I didn’t know had a football program (OK, that was mean to say about Arkansas-Pine Bluff).

Hey, even the Kansas Jayhawks got a win in their season opener. Did Les “The Mad Hatter” Miles get as emotional as Mack Brown after Carter Stanley threw the game-winning touchdown pass against the formidable Sycamores from Indiana State?

With all due respect to Barry Switzer and “hangin’ half a-hundred” on everyone, here’s the Big 12 power rankings for Week 1.

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