1. Must read: Andy Katz’s interview of deposed Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe. He said the league picked up TCU as its 10th member because the Big 12 needs four Texas schools. That must be more important than the long-promoted idea that a new member increase the league’s TV footprint. Regarding the revenue-sharing rule that passed last week, Beebe said that Nebraska shot it down two years ago. He believes that if the rule had been in place, Nebraska and Colorado may have stayed. That sounds like wishful thinking.

2. Texas fell from 11th to 22nd after being schooled by No. 3 Oklahoma, 55-17. But having said last week that I didn’t understand why the Longhorns were ranked so high, I’m just as unconvinced that Texas is as bad as the loss to the Sooners suggests. A very young team played a rivalry game in a bowl-type setting and proved woefully unprepared. I think the Longhorns will show up for their home game Saturday against No. 6 Oklahoma State. The one caveat: How deeply the Sooners bruised the Longhorns’ confidence.

3. What impresses me about No. 11 Michigan’s 6-0 start under first-year coach Brady Hoke is the fight that they showed in the fourth quarter against their two toughest opponents to date: Notre Dame and Northwestern. Michigan still hasn’t beaten a team that is ranked this week, and No. 4 Wisconsin is not on the regular-season schedule. That means if Michigan wins Saturday at No. 23 Michigan State, the Wolverines become the team to beat in the Legends Division. Who would have believed that in August?