Five thoughts as the first session for Thursday winds down (with Kansas now up 17 in the second half against Texas Tech)…

Coming up on the end of his second season, Thomas Gipson’s transition from big kid to low-post leader is happening.

The Big 12 is one of two conferences to have 50 percent of its teams in this week’s BCS Standings top 25. Eight teams have appeared in the BCS standings at some point this year. [...]

In digging through the Big 12′s game notes for this week, this string of information stat stood out: 1) 20% of all Big 12 touchdown drives have been scored in less than a minute (74/371); [...]

The Big 12 Conference has six teams ranked in the BCS Standings. There hasn’t been a week yet this season that at least half of the league hasn’t been included in those rankings.

After Kansas State had wrapped up its win against Texas Tech — its eighth victory of the year and another blowout against a Top 15 opponent — wide receiver Chris Harper looked around the postgame [...]

Last week’s tilt between Kansas State and West Virginia was supposed to be everything I think Texas Tech and K-State will be.

Just past the halfway point of the season, and the Big 12 still has eight schools either ranked or receiving votes. Five schools are in the BCS standings.

By Cyle Kitchen The second-best matchup in the Big 12 last week proved by far to be the game of the week in the conference.

By Cyle Kitchen The game in Fort Worth could have huge implications on how the Big 12 shakes out at the end of the season — especially if there are two or three one-loss teams [...]