Big time college football programs measure success in conference championships, Texas has a big fat zero in that category since Mac Brown, that’s a fact. If a 1 point Rose Bowl win against a team coming off a 16 point thrashing at the hands of a 6-4 team makes up for the lack of conference titles so be it.
As for your SOS who in the Big 12 is good? You'll probably say Texas Tech, but again please look who they've won against. The rest of the Big 12 is like a round robin for the mediocre, of course somebody has to win in that conference if they keep playing each other. Outside of conference play none of the Big 12 teams has beaten anybody worth a crap.
Texas is not any better this year then the teams that could never get past Oklahoma, it's just that Oklahoma isn't Oklahoma this year, and everybody else in the Big 12 is playing like they have the last few years. We could go back and fourth all night with this, but after Texas beat Ohio State my prediction got delayed until the Bowl games. Not one real contender existed on the Longhorns schedule past Ohio State, and the pollsters will see that sooner or later. If VTECH wins out, which they will, Texas will not be going to the National Title game. Regardless things will work themselves out because they will be exposed in the bowl game no matter who they play.
Let’s just kill this debate for now, let the season play out, and talk about this at the end of the year. If I'm wrong I'll eat crow, if not you can have a peace, either way all were doing is arguing opinions. and as Lee Corso says in NCAA 2006, opinions are like --- holes.