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Take Two: What is the best Big 12 bowl matchup

The bowl pairings for this season are so fresh, we've hardly had a chance to digest all that might happen over the next five weeks.

For our Take Two topic this week, we examined the six Big 12 bowl teams alongside their opponents and asked: What's the best matchup?

Take 1: Mitch Sherman -- Oklahoma State vs. Colorado in the Valero Alamo Bowl

I grew up on Big Eight football, so this 47th meeting in the series -- the first since 2009 -- appeals to my sense of nostalgia.

Oklahoma State and Colorado went back and forth in the Buffaloes' final decade-plus as a Big 12 member, splitting eight meetings after Colorado owned the Cowboys under Rick Neuheisel and in the final years of the Bill McCartney era.