our son sent me a link over to barking carnival and the discussion of the horns game with wvu last night. what i found most interesting was this post which if you swapped out tcu for texas it would read fairly accurate for the frogs in response to their ken pom ranking and the challenge for the rest of the season
"The amusing thing is the underlying stats didn’t change enough for that number to move, it was 7-11 prior to the game. Texas dropped 7 spots in their rankings to #66, but the Longhorns are still nestled right in with a good chunk of the Big 12 so it’s feasible on paper.
2 games left against #64 TCU
2 games left against #62 ISU
1 game left against #80 OSU
1 game left against #88 KSU
There’s 6, Texas needs to win 5 of them to hit 7. Texas has played 3 of their 4 hardest conference games (@WVU, @BU, KU) so the remaining schedule gets somewhat easier. I can see 7-11, maybe 8-10 if they shake off this bludgeoning and pick off somebody like Tech in Austin or OU in Norman. The path to the NCAA tournament probably involves at least a couple wins in the conference tourney unless they pull off a significant upset or two (for example, Tech in Lubbock or Baylor in Austin) between now and then. I’m not saying this is a likely outcome, just tracing out what that path might look like."
francis xav has mentioned multiple times how he sees the big 12 as a few teams at the top and a cluster in the middle and roughly 1/3 of the way through the conference schedule it is a fairly muddled mess in the middle waiting for a few teams to separate themselves.