Big 12 power rankings: 2017 was not what we expected, mostly

Ah, welcome to the final regular season edition of the Big 12 power rankings.

It’s baffling how every year, we think we know how the season is going to play out, and every year, we’re proven mostly wrong. Who thought Iowa State was going to be this good, or Texas was going to be this bad? The one team we did predict accurately, and thank goodness we did, was Texas Tech, which started the season at No. 7 in my power rankings and after a period of highs and lows, eventually finished the year in the same spot.

For this edition, I did not compare the teams’ rankings from last week to now, rather, where the teams were slotted in the first rankings of the season compared to now. So, Oklahoma…