Big 12 Roundup: Turning the corner

There are no moral victories in college football. They don't put a loss in paranthesis. It doesn't happen. But if we can't hold our head high and learn from all the good that came from this game...

These words came from Tom Herman as he tried to wrap his head around his team’s overtime loss to USC a week ago. But it’s an appropriate segue into Week 4 in the Big 12 as well.

West Virginia beats Kansas 56-34

For Kansas, no kind of victory—moral or otherwise—seemed likely after West Virginia burned the Jayhawks for four touchdowns (each on passes of 80 yards or more) and led 28-3 midway through the second quarter. The slow start appeared to doom Kansas much as it did in the Jayhawks’ two other…