Winners and Losers: Kansas State OC Collin Klein has a Big 12 title as a player and coach

WINNERS:

1) CALEB WILLIAMS: The USC signal-caller deservedly wins the Heisman Trophy. I thought TCU quarterback Max Duggan had a shot after his performance versus Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship Game.

2) EVERYONE: An expanded playoff, involving 12 teams, is coming to college football in 2024. That is sooner than expected.

3.) COLLIN KLEIN: K-State offensive coordinator Collin Klein now has a Big 12 Championship as both a Kansas State player and coach.

4) GRADUATES: Congratulations to everyone from Kansas State University that graduated yesterday and received their diploma.

5) N’GUESSAN: Although it wasn’t pretty in the early going, Jerome Tang and K-State have rattled off consecutive wins over Wichita State and Abilene Christian. And in the last contest, Kansas State big David N’Guessan poured in a career-high 23 points.

👨🏾‍🎓! Momma I did it

— Malik⁴🕵🏽‍♂️ (@Leekfor6) December 10, 2022

LOSERS

1) MIZZOU: They’re down bad in Columbia. Not only did they get waxed by Kansas State in Manhattan on the gridiron, they were destroyed at home on the hardwood after a week of convincing themselves that they could compete with Bill Self and Kansas. And that came just a week after Eliah Drinkwitz and the Tigers did everything in their power to avoid playing Lance Leipold and the Jayhawks in a bowl game.

2) GEORGE: The Pac-12 commissioner has a hard time of not stepping in it and shouting lies from the rooftops that are easily disprovable. Remember, he said that the Pac-12 would soon catch the SEC in revenue. He said UCLA would lose money by joining the Big Ten. And now George Kliavkoff has barked that they held off on signing a television deal because he knew all along that Colorado would hire Deion Sanders and that one wouldn’t be finalized anytime soon because television executives don’t work in the second half of December. That was immediately discredited by former FOX Sports executive Bob Thompson.

3) FIGHTING IRISH: Know who else is down bad? Notre Dame. They just aren’t being as whiny about it as Missouri or look as embarrassing. They also aren’t going on Twitter, like Kansas fans, and trying to convince themselves that K-State didn’t win the Big 12. So, they have that going for them. But, like Kansas State, they lost Dylan Edwards from their class (after he de-committed and picked Colorado soon afterwards) and also are expected to drop a recruiting battle to K-State for a receiver transfer.

4) ROSE BOWL: After being the lone remaining obstruction to having the expanded playoff come to college football as soon as 2024, that news was revealed about the Rose Bowl and the game was drug for a few weeks. The strongest criticism for the event actually came from Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark.

5) OU: It will stick in the craw of Sooner fans for a while to see the success that Lincoln Riley is having in Los Angeles, and that was only exaggerated more and more when former Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams won a Heisman Trophy under his watch at USC.

Next man up#KStateMBB x EMAW pic.twitter.com/GKPVPtVLGj

— K-State Men's Basketball (@KStateMBB) December 8, 2022

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