The Big 12 power rankings are published weekly by the Hotline throughout the regular season. They are the result of a deep dive into the analytics, an assessment of subjective factors and, when necessary, flips of the coin. No conference has more parity. The parity leads to chaos, and the chaos creates an endlessly compelling product that is not always easy to unscramble.

(Here are last week’s rankings.)

We are two weeks from the midpoint of the Big 12 race — plenty of time for presumptions to flip and mass mayhem to strike a conference defined by its unpredictability.

But the sample size is large enough for clarity to emerge in one important regard: the degree of variance in stretch-run schedules for the (apparent) title contenders.

With 16 teams and only nine conference games, the li

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