DALLAS -- Just when the Texas-Missouri game was looking like a top 5 matchup and possible preview of the Big 12 championship game, along came the Oklahoma State Cowboys to shake things up.
Chase Daniel and the No. 11 Tigers will still be troublesome in Austin, maybe even more now that they're coming off a loss. And there's no telling how the pressure of being the nation's new No. 1 will affect Colt McCoy and the Longhorns -- if not against Mizzou, perhaps in their next game, against those very same OSU Cowboys, now ranked eighth.
Week after week, that's how it's going to be in the Big 12 in this, the best season the league's ever seen.
Proclaiming the Big 12 loaded with good teams isn't exactly breaking news. It's just that the first two weekends have been such a scoreboard-watcher's delight that it makes you wonder how much better can the next seven weeks get.
Prediction? Please. At this point, it's tough enough picking which game or games will be that week's standings-buster, much less trying to figure out who will make it to Arrowhead Stadium on Dec. 6 for the league championship.
Even Longhorns coach Mack Brown sounded wary following Texas' 45-35 victory over Oklahoma on Saturday.
"If we play with less intensity, we will lose," Brown said.
SEC fans might be snickering at all the fuss. They've enjoyed this kind of week-in, week-out drama for years. But it's new to this part of the country, at least at this level.
Saturday was a great example.
The fun began early, with then-No. 1 Oklahoma and then-No. 5 Texas meeting in their annual clash at the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns won a thoroughly entertaining game 45-35.
Colorado gave Kansas a mild scare, but the Jayhawks came away feeling good about Jake Sharp turning a career-high 31 carries into 118 yards and three touchdowns, also career-highs. Keep it up and he'll be the running threat No. 16 Kansas needs to loosen up defenses for quarterback Todd Reesing.
About the same time, Texas Tech needed overtime at home to hold off a Nebraska team coming off consecutive losses.
Then came the nightcap from Columbia, Mo.
