Big 12 Football Power Rankings, Week 13: Oklahoma asserts dominance

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“If you’re walking ’round think’n that the world owes you something’ cause you’re here, You goin’ out the world backwards like you did when you first come here — yeah.”

— Respect Yourself, The Staples Singers

Here at headquarters we were in quite the mood sitting in the Bill Snyder family recliner getting ready for the Baylor-Oklahoma game. Barry Switzer and Tom Osborne were yelling, “We get our propers tonight!”

Then the game started.

We were looking on excited — except for Switzer, of course — at the start the Bears were off to in the first half. Barry Alvarez chimed in, “Oklahoma’s giving body blows, though.” An intern retorted, “Aren’t you a Big Ten coach?” We looked at the intern and calmly gave him a history lesson about Alvarez’s start at Nebraska and how ironic that Wisconsin looks more like Nebraska than the Cornhuskers.

Alvarez was right. Baylor looked tired at halftime, and there was some question of whether or not they could keep this up for four quarters. They couldn’t. The Sooners snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and Switzer had a few tears in his eyes. He promptly intimidated them and they retracted back into their tear ducts.

That wasn’t the only game from last week’s schedule that was an absolute classic. Every game on the Big 12 slate was entertaining. The Mountaineers shocked the Wildcats, Texas fell to the Cyclones and even Kansas, well, Chuba Hubbard didn’t get 250 yards rushing against the Jayhawks, so that’s something.

With all due respect — and maybe an apology or two — to Barry Switzer and “Hangin half a hundred on ’em” here are your Big 12 power rankings heading into Week 13.