WIll say same thing I say every year - bowl games dont mean much to me in terms of conferences. Too many side issues - coaching rumors/changes, always suspensions, incentive issues and so on. Colorado and Okie State are the 2 worst Big 12 teams to get into bowls. They got destroyed by all of the better Big 12 teams (although Texas slept through a half against Okie State before scoring 49 straight). Okie State finished 5th in their DIVISION. They lost AT HOME to AM badly. And so on..
And you cant go by who did what to who either - Okie State manhandled the same UCLA team that almost beat USC. Could play 6 degrees of X team and come up with plenty of absurd notions.
All that aside - did anyone ever say the Big 12 was strong? Like the pac 10, there are 2 really good teams a couple average teams and alot of bad teams this year.