00:00Houston and Oklahoma State are two awesome offenses.
00:05You look at it and you're like, man, like 62 and a half high enough, right?
00:08I know it's a lot of points, but which one of these teams is not getting to 30?
00:13Mastermaker's got it going, right, after the early season struggles.
00:17And when I say early season struggles, I mean the Tulsa game.
00:21Connor Wegman's got it going.
00:22I cannot believe that this team trailed 17-0 against UCF.
00:28I laid 10-1⁄2 and they won by 10.
00:30I cannot believe that that is still a thing that happened.
00:33It's a four-and-a-half-point number.
00:36Did this game make your card, almost make your card?
00:39What catches your eye here?
00:41It almost made my card.
00:43I had Houston written down for a little while.
00:45Last week I played the under in the Houston-K-State game.
00:47I thought Houston played a great game.
00:49I still like Houston.
00:50I said it on the first show of the year.
00:52I think they can win the Big 12.
00:53It's still right there in front of them.
00:54I'm not necessarily buying what Texas Tech is selling.
00:57The season's gone pretty much how I thought it would for those two teams
01:01with Houston losing late versus Texas Tech
01:05and could get the rematch in the Big 12 title game.
01:07They've got to take care of an Oklahoma State team
01:09that I don't think anybody saw coming,
01:11especially after the Tulsa loss.
01:12We're like, this whole thing experiment is going to go wrong.
01:16But Vasteminer and the Cowboys have looked absolutely great this season.
01:19I think this is just a step up for them on the road at the Cougs team
01:23that I think is very, very good.
01:25But I'd be surprised if this game didn't go over, so I stayed away from it.
01:29Houston won this game by 22 on the road last year.
01:32Different Oklahoma State team, obviously.
01:34Cowboys team put up 42 points for UCF last week.
01:38I like Houston, but I couldn't get myself to lay it.
01:41I'm probably going to play it in some little parlay cards I have.
01:45I just think they're the better team here.
01:47That doesn't mean Oklahoma State can't win it.
01:49They've done everything right since that first game of the season,
01:51and they're right there in Big 12 contention.
01:55So, I don't know.
01:58Sometimes, you know, spread math, spots, all these things.
02:03Sometimes it's like, I just kind of like this team.
02:04And that's how I feel about Oklahoma State.
02:06Now, not enough to get them on my card.
02:08I think mainly because Houston, like, that's an early season scar team for me.
02:14Right?
02:14Where I laid it against them with Texas Tech,
02:17was not covering all game, and then miraculously was covering all.
02:23And then, I'm not saying I, like, I wouldn't have deserved that win.
02:28But it looked like I had it.
02:30They snatch it, right?
02:31They missed a two-point conversion.
02:32Okay, fine.
02:33And then, whatever they did against UCF, I'm like, I don't know.
02:36We don't seem to have a good feeling on it.
02:39I would say almost every year, there's, like, one team.
02:41I'm like, I need to not be involved with your games.
02:43That might just be Houston this year.
02:45Usually, it's just Clemson.
02:46It might still be Clemson.
02:49I do think Estimaker should play, or at least has the chance to play very well.
02:56The way you want to attack Houston is through the air.
02:59He's starting to just, again, get that rhythm going.
03:02Can he play a clean football game?
03:03He does have five interceptions on the season, which is a little loud.
03:06But I think my takeaway, just kind of the Big 12 as a whole, somebody who's in on Texas Tech,
03:12obviously, they've not lived up to that number, is the Big 12 is better.
03:22I think the Big 12 is, like, much better than maybe people are realizing.
03:27Utah look awesome.
03:30Texas Tech don't look as good as last year's group, but that's still a really solid team.
03:34I sneaky think BYU might be the worst team of these five.
03:39We'll find out today, but I think that might be true.
03:41And then the Houston and Oklahoma State offenses are really fun.
03:44I'm not trying to do something like, see, 24 teams is great.
03:47I'm not trying to do that.
03:49But I do think that these are all teams that interest me, Dave.
03:53And I think, you know, depending on tiebreakers, are all in the mix here when we talk about a Big
03:5712 championship appearance.
03:59Yeah, well, you bring up tongue-in-cheek the 2014 playoff.
04:03Like, neither and none of these teams are national title contenders.
04:06They're just not.
04:07I know Texas Tech was in the playoff last year, and they were a top-five team.
04:10But I don't think anybody's going to say Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Houston, Utah, BYU are actual threats to win
04:15the national title.
04:16Sure, they can all make a 2014 playoff and lose in the first round.
04:21I do think Utah has looked outstanding, like you said.
04:23We're going to see BYU tonight.
04:25Texas Tech, it's a different team than last year.
04:28The defense is still great.
04:30The offense has struggled.
04:31I think they will have no problem with Arizona State today.
04:34We're going to see who's going to be the contender for Texas Tech with this Oklahoma State-Houston game.
04:40I really believe that the winner of this game will face Tech in the Big 12 title game.
04:44And you're right about everything the Cowboys have done.
04:46And, yeah, there are some Houston scars for you and for me because I had them against Oregon State, and
04:50they didn't cover.
04:52Last week, Houston, you look at the common opponent, Houston, Oklahoma State.
04:56They both played UCF recently.
04:59Oklahoma State blew them out.
05:00Houston needed the rally.
05:02This is going to be a great game.
05:03I think it comes down to the very end, which is why I couldn't take Houston.
