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FIRST QUARTER: KARMA ON I-35
Somewhere in the Metroplex Saturday night, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby (1) surely reached for a bottle of the good stuff. Perhaps something from Schadenfreude Vineyards—not served chilled, but flat-out cold. Surely he gave himself a heavy pour and lifted it in the general direction of Waco, and then Austin, and drank deeply.
The comeuppances of eventual conference evacuees Oklahoma (2) and Texas (3) on the same day, at the hands of two underdog schools left behind in Baylor and Kansas, may have caused some mixed emotions, but only a glimmer.