Herbstreit picks TCU to win Big 12 title
The high pre-season ranking given Oklahoma by ESPN and the AP poll might jinx the Sooners, but Kirk Herbstreit won’t be responsible for it. Herbstreit has picked TCU to win the Big 12 title in 2016 — not Oklahoma.
Herbstreit said the addition of former Texas A&M QB Kenny Hill will make the Horned Frogs “pretty dynamic” and will surprise people.
While the Sooners open the season on the road against a highly-ranked Houston Cougars, TCU starts the 2016 campaign at home against South Dakota State (an FCS school).
Sooners among college football ‘Blue Bloods’
ESPN writers have named Oklahoma one of the five most important programs in college football history. The Sooners were a unanimous pick of the 12 writers, along with four other power house programs.
Each writer was asked to rate every current FBS program on a scale of 1-10, based on each school’s overall impact on the history of college football.
See the rankings below. The top five finished with unanimous 10 scores.