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In other news, Oklahoma and Texas play at the Cotton Bowl.

Such is just one of the stunning results of Bloody Saturday, a weekend in which half the AP top 10 (and seven of the top 13) lost. And no league fell harder than the Big 12.

The Sooners and Longhorns, the Big 12's aristocracy this entire decade, suffered stunning defeats to unheralded North Division foes, sending a clear message to the rest of the conference.

They aren't who we thought they were.

OU, ranked third, lost at Colorado 27-24. A couple of hours later, Kansas State hammered seventh-ranked Texas 41-21. Which leaves Big 12 football in a most curious spot as October arrives:

•The Oklahoma State-Texas A&M game Saturday night in College Station is for the outright lead in the South. Think of it this way: Come Saturday night, the OSU-A&M winner will be two games ahead of the OU-Texas loser.

•The Nebraska-Missouri game Saturday night in Columbia is not necessarily the North Division title game. If K-State can win at Texas, if Colorado can rally from a 17-point deficit against OU, contending in the North seems no huge task for the Wildcats or Buffaloes.

"You can't crown anybody off a Week 1 Big 12 game,” KSU quarterback Josh Freeman told the Wichita Eagle. "But people should know we're here, and we're playing ... we have a chance to make a push in the North and the whole Big 12.”

•With OU exposed as beatable, and K-State and Colorado revealed as legitimate threats, the Big 12 literally has 10 contenders for its championship. Admittedly, A&M and Nebraska have drawn the ire of their own fan bases for meager performances this year. OSU and