Why I Like Baylor To Beat Oklahoma State In Stillwater

Scott Wachter-USA TODAY Sports A Top 25 Match-Up!

Look, the delineation between “top 25 wins” vs “non-top 25 wins” has always irked me. It’s nonsensical to arbitrarily cutoff what makes a good team vs not a good team. There is no reason to value beating the #21 team by 7 points way more than beating the #40 team by 21 or something. But anyway, stopping myself before I go way down that rabbit hole, there is no denying the cultural value that having one of these wins. And there’s no denying that “top 25 match-ups” simply mean more. Why? I don’t know, I didn’t decide. But it’s the arbitrary marker we all operate under, and that’s how it is! I won’t deny that there is some extra juice to this…