Last week the annual preseason Big 12 poll was released. Idiots like me vote on how teams will finish. Last year idiots like me picked Baylor to finish sixth in the conference, and they almost made the College Football Playoff. So clearly there are many flaws in how these things are picked, but I want to look today at whether we can decipher anything from last week’s poll (see below).
| Oklahoma (80) | 888 | 12-2 |
| Oklahoma State (6) | 742 | 8-5 |
| Texas (4) | 727 | 8-5 |
| Iowa State | 607 | 7-6 |
| Baylor | 489 | 11-3 |
| TCU | 477 | 5-7 |
| Kansas State | 366 | 8-5 |
| West Virginia | 287 | 5-7 |
| Texas Tech | 267 | 4-8 |
| Kansas | 100 | 3-9 |
OU and Kansas have traditionally been the easiest teams to pick since the league went to 10 teams back in 2012.