re: Looking @ the Big 12 OOC Power 5 wins, thankfully the Big Ten still counts

the ksu/auburn and wvu/alabama matchups are interesting because they are relatively rare - ooc matchups between teams at about the same position in the conference

I don't make very much of fsu beating ok state, tt vs arkansas, or tcu vs minnesota

FWiW other conferences can safely argue more than the bottom half of the SEC is really pretty terrible this year:

Florida - Several years in Boom's team fields a less potent offense than Hamilton Burger. Two close wins against Tennessee and Kentucky and a close loss against LSU leave them sitting in third place in the East. That says terrible, terrible things about five of the seven teams in the East
Tennessee - not even competitive in games against OU, Bama, and Ole Miss plus losing their game against Florida leaves them winless in SEC play, in the lesser division. They close the year against Vandy - which really could be their first SEC win of the year if you look ahead
Vandy - raise your hand if you miss Franklin, or lost to Temple, Kentucky, and Missouri
South Carolina - losses to Kentucky, Missouri and A&M look bad - even when you give them credit for beating UGA.
Kentucky - the big surprise is them beating USC, which says unexpectedly bad things about USC IMO. They play no one ooc until Louisville
Arkansas - beating Texas Tech is better than losing to them but nothing to brag about. How many years now since a win in the SEC?
Missouri - lost at home to Indiana. period, end of story.
Texas A&M - an opener against USC led to all sorts of excitement but they were absolutely humiliated against Alabama (appeared to just give up) and the result was a aggiesque blowout that probably makes certain major changes in personnel and perhaps philosophy at the end of the year. Winning two of their last three against Missouri, Auburn, and LSU seems unlikely, but that's what they'd need to accomplish to finish .500 in SEC play