re: According to just about everyone who isn't a TN fan, the OK game is already lost

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The question is: why?

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The Big 12 really only has 2 schools who can get to the playoff from that conference. Most of this resolves around who wins the Red River Rivalry so if Utx drops a loss in week 1 and OK drops a loss in week 2 the Big 12 is out of this years playoff before the first Big 12 conference game is played.

The psyche in the anti SEC crowd need this win to keep a non SEC in the playoff hunt. This filters down to the east and west coast media folks and gets distributed as OK wins.