Big 12 Football: Ranking each bowl game by watchability

Bowl season includes six matchups featuring Big 12 football teams, which should bring some level of intrigue top-to-bottom.

The Texas Longhorns football program had to be hoping, when they came into this regular season with high expectations, that they would be either competing for another spot in the Sugar Bowl or for a bid in the College Football Playoff. The Longhorns came into the 2019 regular season with a top 10 AP Poll and Coaches Poll ranking and coming off a double-digit win season and an appearance in the Big 12 Football Championship Game.

Moreover, what also led to high expectations for the Longhorns this season was the Sugar Bowl win over the Georgia Bulldogs to cap the 2018 campaign. But none of that amounted to much as head Texas football coach Tom Herman saw his squad finish out the regular season with a 7-5 (5-4 Big 12) record. There also weren’t many marquee wins for Texas this season.

The best wins for the Longhorns during the regular season came over the Oklahoma State Cowboys, Kansas State Wildcats, and West Virginia Mountaineers. Match that up with the Longhorns wins over the Oklahoma Sooners, Iowa State Cyclones, and Georgia last season, and it just doesn’t feel the same.

Nonetheless, Texas still finished up in the second best non-College Football Playoff bowl game among all the Big 12 teams. The Big 12 sent six teams into the postseason, which is a good number for more than half the conference to go bowling.

Texas gets the No. 11 ranked Utah Utes in the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio on Dec. 28. The only better bowl games that the Big 12 landed in was Oklahoma against the No. 1 ranked LSU Tigers in the Playoff and the Baylor Bears against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

Here’s a look into the definitive watchability rankings for all the Big 12 bowl games in the postseason.