Texas is Heavy Favorite of Media's Big 12 Poll, OSU Picked 7th with a 1st Place Vote
STILLWATER – It is a new world in the Big 12, but one thing hasn’t changed. The media is still pinning the preseason favorite’s roll in football on a blueblood program. The Big 12 won’t necessarily have one of those in 2024, but the media for one last time picked either Texas or Oklahoma first in the league. Oklahoma with their losing season (6-7) in 2022 has lost the confidence of the media and it is Texas that assumed the top position in the media’s balloting.
Texas also had a conference best five players selected in the media’s preseason All-Big 12 football team that was released on June 5. Those selections included preseason defensive player of the year Jaylan Ford, receiver Xavier Worthy, tigjt end Ja’Tavion Sanders, defensive lineman Byron Murphy II, and offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr.
Texas received first place votes from 41 of the 63 media that voted in the poll. The media voting were all given ballots as media enrolled and scheduled to participate in next week’s Big 12 Football Media Days.
Defending Big 12 champion Kansas State was second in the voting and had 14 first place votes including mine. Oklahoma and texas Tech each received four first-place votes, TCU had three, and Oklahoma State received one. We actually know that came from Ari Temkin of Big 12 This Morning on Sirius XM Radio.
Oklahoma State which had three players (receiver Brennan Presley, linebacker Collin Oliver, and safety Kendal Daniels) selected to the preseason All-Big 12 football team was voted seventh with the one first-place vote and a total of 470 points.
All four of the new teams coming into the Big 12 this season were voted in the bottom half of the league starting with UCF at eighth. BYU was voted 11th, Houston 12th, and Cincinnati 13th.
West Virginia was picked last in the preseason poll by the media.
Place | Big 12 Preseason Media Poll (1st Place) Total Pts. | Pokes Report Picks |
1. | Texas (41) 886 | Kansas State |
2. | Kansas State (14) 858 | Oklahoma State |
3. | Oklahoma (4) 758 | Texas |
4. | Texas Tech (4) 729 | TCU |
5. | TCU (3) 727 | Texas Tech |
6. | Baylor 572 | Oklahoma |
7. | Oklahoma State (1) 470 | UCF |
8. | UCF 463 | Iowa State |
9. | Kansas 461 | Baylor |
10. | Iowa State 334 | BYU |
11. | BYU 318 | Kansas |
12. | Houston 215 | West Virginia |
13. | Cincinnati 202 | Houston |
14. | West Virginia 129 | Cincinnati |
Big 12 Football Media Days, Presented by Old Trapper will be conducted next Wednesday and Thursday, July 12-13. Coverage from both days will be provided on ESPNU and Big 12 Now on ESPN+. Locally, you will get radio coverage foth days from 10 am through 5 pm on Triple Play Sports Radio (105.1, 103.3, 103.1, and 1520 AM) and right here on Pokes Report.