Football

Texas selected to complete third in the Big 12 football media preseason poll

The rule of the Oklahoma Sooners over the Big 12 Conference will proceed in 2020, in any event as indicated by the desires for media individuals who picked the Sooners to win a 6th consecutive conference championship in a poll released on Friday by the conference.

It’s the fifth successive year that the media has picked Oklahoma to win the Big 12 and the eighth time since 2011.

The media chose Oklahoma State to complete second and for Texas to complete third in a significant season for head coach Tom Herman after his 10-win season in 2018 decayed into an 8-5 campaign in 2019 that brought about the turnover of seven assistant coaches. The Longhorns received four first-place votes.

Here’s the full poll: