Remember about a week ago, when the Big 12's College Football Playoff hopes were at death's door?
The Big 12 is now feeling a lot better this week just as some of its fellow conferences took a turn for the worse. Anyone got a condition update on the Pac-12? In the zero-sum game of the playoff, someone else's misery is a good thing.
Welcome to college football 2017, where one weekend can totally alter the conventional wisdom and outcomes are not quite as certain they might have seemed.
Or as CFP executive director Bill Hancock put it Saturday while watching the Red River Showdown: "There's a lot of football remaining to be played.