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2 years 9 months ago #28431 by HawkErrant
Raiders still undefeated at home (16-0) this season.

Baylor and Tech tied for second (9-4), two games behind KU (10-2) in the loss column.

A KU win in Morgantown this Saturday would be HUGE!
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2 years 9 months ago #28432 by NotOstertag
Simply put, it's ours to lose.

We need to go 4-2 to guarantee at least a tie of the championship.

Both Baylor and Tech need to go 5-0.

The "magic number" is 4.

The game at Baylor will be interesting to say the least. If we can win at WV and beat KSU in Allen, we can eliminate Baylor early if we can win there.
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2 years 9 months ago - 2 years 9 months ago #28433 by HawkErrant
CORRECTED POST
(Thanks, Socalhawk!)

Quite so, NotO!

The current leaderboard top 4 are -

10-2 KANSAS, up 1 in the W column and 2 in the L column.
9-4 Baylor
9-4 Texas Tech
8-5 tu

While 5th place K State (6-7) and 6th place TCU (5-6) are not mathematically eliminated, it would take a miracle of biblical proportions for either of them to end the season with even a share of the title.

KANSAS has 6 games left due to the COVID-19 rescheduled conference season opener at TCU.
Baylor, Tech and tu each have 5 games left.

Here's the remaining B12 schedules for them....

KANSAS 
DATE		OPPONENT	TIME		TV
Sat, Feb 19	@ WVU		7:00 PM		ESPN
Tue, Feb 22	vs K State	8:00 PM		ESPN2
Sat, Feb 26	@ 7 Baylor	7:00 PM		ESPN
Tue, Mar 1	@ TCU		7:00 PM		BIG12|ESPN+
Thu, Mar 3	vs TCU		7:00 PM		BIG12|ESPN+
Sat, Mar 5	vs 20 Texas*	3:00 PM		ESPN		
   *The SENIOR GAME!!!
    And MAYBE the game that decides the Big 12 Regular Season title!

BAYLOR
DATE		OPPONENT	TIME		TV
Sat, Feb 19	vs TCU		11:00 AM	ESPN2
Mon, Feb 21	@ OK State	8:00 PM		ESPN
Sat, Feb 26	vs 6 Kansas	7:00 PM		ESPN
Mon, Feb 28	@ 20 Texas	8:00 PM		ESPN
Sat, Mar 5	vs Iowa State	5:00 PM		ESPN2

TEXAS TECH
DATE		OPPONENT	TIME		TV
Sat, Feb 19	@ 20 Texas	11:30 AM	ABC
Tue, Feb 22	vs Oklahoma	7:00 PM		BIG12|ESPN+
Sat, Feb 26	@ TCU		5:00 PM		ESPN2
Mon, Feb 28	vs K State	8:00 PM		ESPN2
Sat, Mar 5	@ OK State	2:00 PM		BIG12|ESPN+

tu
DATE		OPPONENT	TIME		TV
Sat, Feb 19	vs 11 T Tech	11:30 AM	ABC
Wed, Feb 23	vs TCU		6:00 PM		ESPN2 or U
Sat, Feb 26	@ WVU		TBD		ESPN or 2
Mon, Feb 28	vs 7 Baylor	8:00 PM		ESPN
Sat, Mar 5	@ 6 Kansas	3:00 PM		ESPN

Texas, with remaining games at home against Tech and Baylor and closing the season at KANSAS, arguably has the toughest remaining schedule of the three even before including still having to play at WVU. Their only projected "gimme" game is hosting TCU. Ideally for KANSAS, they will beat Tech and beat Baylor and lose to everybody else, but especially KANSAS in KU's 2022 Senior Game!

Texas Tech arguably has the easiest remaining schedule, with Saturday's game in Austin as the only game that stacks up as a tough one for the Red Raiders. So let's hope tu manages the W there, because otherwise don't slip up KANSAS or Baylor! As Tech has finished its games against KANSAS and Baylor, it must rely on other teams taking down those two if the Raiders are to have a chance to win the title.

If not for Tech, Baylor -- whose only real threats (probability speaking) are KANSAS at home and Texas in Austin -- would have the easiest remaining schedule, even if you think OK State beats them in Stillwater. (We can always hope, eh?)

KANSAS has 3 games that should be "gimme games" from the perspective of "KANSAS *SHOULD* WIN (TCU x2 and KState).
The other 3 --
@ WVU (even this down year for them Morgantown is still a tough venue)
@ Baylor
hosting Texas in the KANSAS SENIOR GAME --
are all going to be tough to win games, but not impossible.

Can KANSAS finish 6-0 in the Big 12 to effectively run away with the title?
Unlikely, but not impossible.

As you noted, NotO, the "magic number" is 4.
KANSAS winning 4 games guarantees at least a tie for the title with Baylor and/or Tech, and tu out of the running.

The games continue this Saturday in Morgantown, Waco and Austin.

JUST WIN!

LET'S GO JAYHAWKS!
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Last Edit: 2 years 9 months ago by HawkErrant. Reason: Fixed errors in standings and resultant analyses. Duh! SMH. :( Thanks again, Socal!
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2 years 9 months ago #28435 by Socalhawk
HE, thank you for your chart …. I show UT @8-5 with TT tied with BU. I will be a Longhorn fan for the next couple of weeks.


10-2 KANSAS, up 1 in the W column and 2 in the L column.
9-4 Baylor
9-4 TT
8-5 UT

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2 years 9 months ago - 2 years 9 months ago #28437 by HawkErrant
Socal, I got no excuse.
I had the standings right in my origin post, but that was yesterday.
Clearly today is Brain Cramp Day (for me at least -- maybe it's all the snow? Nah! :pinch:)

Thanks for reporting my mistake.

You are correct, it's Tech tied with Baylor, not tu.

I don't know what mental breakdown led to me flipping tu and Tech.

Rather than do a second post -- and continue to confuse any new readers with the old one still "as is" -- I'm going to go back and fix my mistake (one of the few benefits of moderator status).

Thanks again!
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2 years 9 months ago #28445 by LKF_HAWK
Appreciate the assist TTU provided and thank them for QB #15, but Tech fans are getting full of themselves. “best HC advantage”…blah, blah. Win a NCAAT before shooting off at the mouth.. sick of these newbie programs thinking they are the greatest thing since sliced bread…

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