PROVO, Utah – Barely two seasons into it, forget trying to figure out this current configuration of the Big 12 conference in football.

Double-digit favorites lose to teams coming off a 32-point loss (see Arizona State’s stunner over seventh-ranked Texas Tech on Saturday afternoon). Teams with a losing record walk out of a hostile environment to slap the first loss on a previously undefeated and nationally ranked team in late November, as Kansas did to BYU last year.

For this reason, among others, the hyper-intense rivalry between BYU and Utah fits perfectly in the Big 12. Anything can happen with these two, exactly like the Big 12 has shown since bringing in four teams after greed imploded the Pac-12. Nobody had BYU unbeaten in mid-October after seven games. The oddsmakers didn’t even t

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