Texas Tech football: Big 12 power rankings after two conference games
After two weeks of Big 12 play, let’s take a look at our Big 12 power rankings, where Red Raider fans are certain to hate our program’s place.
Big 12 football is now two weeks old and already, we’ve had some rather interesting developments. In fact, 2020 has already been one of the oddest seasons in recent Big 12 history.
For instance, both Oklahoma and Texas will enter this week’s Red River…whatever politically correct noun they are calling it this year, off of a loss. What’s more, with the Sooners unranked and Texas just at No. 21, the two programs have the lowest combined ranking between them in this rivalry since 1999.
Then there was the fact that two of the teams atop the Big 12 standings, Kansas State and Iowa State, both dropped their first game of the year to double-digit underdogs (Arkansas State and Louisiana respectively). And given how odd the Big 12 has been so far, we might be in for more chaos as the year unfolds.
That will make each week an adventure and it could see our weekly power ranking jumbled like never before. So now that we have two weeks of conference data points to consider, let’s dive into our first Big 12 power rankings and we will begin with the team that we can always count on to occupy the cellar.
No. 10: Kansas
It’s been a disastrous start to year two of the Les Miles era in Lawrence. Kansas sits at 0-3 overall and there appear to be no signs of life within the Jayhawk program.
What’s even more disconcerting for KU is the fact that they haven’t even been in any of their games this year with all three losses coming by 15 points or more. That includes this past weekend’s 47-7 loss to an Oklahoma State team that started a freshman QB and a 15-point loss to Coastal Carolina to being the year.
Miles’ team has the dubious distinction of being last in the Big 12 in scoring offense (14.7 points per game) and scoring defense (44 points per game). What’s more, they sit last in passing offense, rush defense, total offense, pass efficiency, sacks allowed, 3rd down conversion percentage, opponent 3rd down percentage, and red zone defense. Other than that, the Les Miles rebuild is going great.
Many thought that KU was on the right track after Miles, who won a national title at LSU, led his program to a 3-9 record in his first year on the job. While that may not seem like much to most fans, it was just the second 2014 that KU had managed more than two wins in a season.
Losing their three games by an average of 29.3 points per game, it appears that KU is firmly entrenched at the bottom of the Big 12 standings. They are the team that every team in this conference gets right against but unfortunately, the Red Raiders won’t play them until the year’s final game.