Big 12 Power Rankings 2/3 edition

[BigTime]

Rank 'Em (note that power rankings are how you think teams are playing at this point in the season...)

Mine:

Tejas
KU
Colorado
A&M
Mizzou
Neb
OU
Baylor
OSU
KSU
TTU
ISU

 

[Sam]

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Baylor leave the Big 12 or something?

 

[BigTime]

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Baylor leave the Big 12 or something?

Doh.

 

[colston15]

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OU should be ahead of CU and the Huskers.

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

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Can't decide. It's Texas, Kansas, Texas A&M and then a whole *bleep*load of mediocre to awful teams. As I said in another thread the conference is incredibly top heavy this year.

 

[Sam]

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Really its KU and Texas at the top (they get their own tier) Mizz and A&M in the next rung. Then a bunch of nada.

 

[Sawyer]

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Almost impossible to rank things right now past the top two. A&M and Missouri have both looked like they belong in the discussion at times, but both also have some bad road losses (Missouri at CU and OSU, A&M at NU). Several other teams have shown flashes of being much better than people initially thought (Colorado looking like a legitimately good team, then sucking again; OU looking like they'd be lucky to win 2 conference games then pulling out 4 straight)... but it's still just flashes.

 

[BigTime]

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Almost impossible to rank things right now past the top two. A&M and Missouri have both looked like they belong in the discussion at times, but both also have some bad road losses (Missouri at CU and OSU, A&M at NU). Several other teams have shown flashes of being much better than people initially thought (Colorado looking like a legitimately good team, then sucking again; OU looking like they'd be lucky to win 2 conference games then pulling out 4 straight)... but it's still just flashes.

Very difficult to do a power rankings right now in this conference. I agree. I really struggled with mine.

 

[Sawyer]

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The team that gives me the most trouble is Colorado. I feel like I more or less know what other teams are, but they're a weird mix of really good talent, no depth and unknown coaching.

 

[Crocker's Long Sleeves]

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Really its KU and Texas at the top (they get their own tier) Mizz and A&M in the next rung. Then a bunch of nada.

This.

Texas
Kansas

Mizz
A&M

Everyone else. We are on the verge of being on top of this list with a few wins though. I never thought I would see that this year. Beat the Aggies and we will take that spot

 

[aaron7]

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Really its KU and Texas at the top (they get their own tier) Mizz and A&M in the next rung. Then a bunch of nada.

I fell like this is right. Top two, next two, and the last eight could finish in any order. First day of the Big XII tourney could be very interesting.

 

[DenverSooner]

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Why is Missouri getting so much love. They played a respectable non-conference and beat the Illini but they have not beaten anyone in conference play. Their wins are KSU, ISU and Nebraska at home. That amounts to beating three teams in the bottom 5 at home.

OU has a road win and beat CU and Baylor. Those teams are tied for 5th and 6th.

I agree it is Texas and KU and everybody else. I think Missouri will beat OU because it is in Missouri but I am losing faith in Missouri.

 

[OUsky]

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Why is Missouri getting so much love.

Because they have such great tradition. :facepalm

 

[Krugerfan52]

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Wow. This is really hard to do.

But here's how I would rank them. Not strictly on what they have accomplished or what they will accomplish, but how good their current roster/coach is. What I mean is that I still think Baylor and Kansas State are good teams even though they haven't shown it yet and KState may tank.

1. Texas
2. Kansas
3. Missouri - because they will win all 8 home games
4. Baylor - they still have a size advantage on most teams and Lace Dunn
5. A&M - lately they look like they are ready to drop down to middle of the pack
6. KState - they still have a size adavantage on most teams and Jacob Pullen
7. Colorado - I know we beat them in Norman but they should win most games at CU
8. OU - we dont have the horses that the top 6 teams do, but we max out potential
9. OSU - Ford actually has more to work with than OU but doesnt get it out of them
10 Tech - lack of defense, lack of true post pressense
11 Nebraska - not impressed with them. 50-60 ppg isnt going to get it done
12 Iowa State - no depth

 

[DenverSooner]

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Wow. This is really hard to do.

But here's how I would rank them. Not strictly on what they have accomplished or what they will accomplish, but how good their current roster/coach is. What I mean is that I still think Baylor and Kansas State are good teams even though they haven't shown it yet and KState may tank.

1. Texas
2. Kansas
3. Missouri - because they will win all 8 home games
4. Baylor - they still have a size advantage on most teams and Lace Dunn
5. A&M - lately they look like they are ready to drop down to middle of the pack
6. KState - they still have a size adavantage on most teams and Jacob Pullen
7. Colorado - I know we beat them in Norman but they should win most games at CU
8. OU - we dont have the horses that the top 6 teams do, but we max out potential
9. OSU - Ford actually has more to work with than OU but doesnt get it out of them
10 Tech - lack of defense, lack of true post pressense
11 Nebraska - not impressed with them. 50-60 ppg isnt going to get it done
12 Iowa State - no depth

I think KSU is in full melt down mode and going to keep floundering. They just lost Judge. They lost another forward (Sutton I think) at the end of last season to transfer. Clemente is gone. KSU has not really even competed on the road in the Big XII. They still have a home game against KU. I think KSU will be lucky to finish 8-8. To do that they (assuming losses against KU at home and at Texas) they have to go 5-1 in their remaining games which include @CU, @Nebraska, @ISU, OU, Missouri and ISU. At this point the only game I am truly confident KSU will win is ISU in Manhatten. The good news for KSU is I am not all that confident that Missouri, OU or ISU in Ames will beat them.

I really think the Big XII is going to end with a massive log jam of teams posting records of 5-11 through 8-8 and then KU and Texas having really strong records, perhaps 15-1 and 16-0. (ISU is probably going to have a really bad record like 3-13 or 2-14 but who knows)

 

[colston15]

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UT
KU
A&M
OU
Mizzou
Baylor
Nebraska
CU
OSU
KSU
Tech
ISU

 

[AdaSooner]

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Why is Missouri getting so much love.

It's the Mike Anderson mystique. Everyone assumes that he is a great coach who is on the same level as his mentor, Nolan Richardson. I call Anderson's defense "40 minutes of heck," because it's not even close to the "forty minutes of hell" we saw from Nolan's teams at Tulsa and Arkansas.

Mizzou is good, but they can also be inconsistent and sloppy team at times. When they're shooting the lights out from the perimeter and getting easy buckets out of their defense, they can beat nearly any team they play. When the officials call the game close and/or their shots from three aren't falling, they're an average team at best.

 

[Sawyer]

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Why is Missouri getting so much love. They played a respectable non-conference and beat the Illini but they have not beaten anyone in conference play. Their wins are KSU, ISU and Nebraska at home. That amounts to beating three teams in the bottom 5 at home.

OU has a road win and beat CU and Baylor. Those teams are tied for 5th and 6th.

I agree it is Texas and KU and everybody else. I think Missouri will beat OU because it is in Missouri but I am losing faith in Missouri.

MU has lost four conference games, but all were on the road and three of the four were against likely (IMO) NCAA teams (and one was an overtime loss against a team OU lost to by 18 in Norman).

OU's road win is against a team we beat by 33. Half the Big 12 will be winning games in Ames this year.

 

[DenverSooner]

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MU has lost four conference games, but all were on the road and three of the four were against likely (IMO) NCAA teams (and one was an overtime loss against a team OU lost to by 18 in Norman).

OU's road win is against a team we beat by 33. Half the Big 12 will be winning games in Ames this year.

Missouri is simply not that impressive this year. Perhaps they will prove to be a good team but right now I see nothing to distinguish Missouri over any of the other Big XII teams except that I don't see pathetic fans from CU or A&M on this board, so you do have that going for you.

 

[OULad]

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Missouri is as good as the officials will let them be. If the officials will let them mug people past half court then they can beat anyone. That being said they probably will not have much trouble with us in Columbia.