While it’s widely accepted that the SEC has been the best conference in college football over the last few years, things may be changing a bit this year. Right now the Big 12 has four teams in the top 10 of the BCS rankings, and five in the top 15. A big reason for this is quarterback play, as Texas has Colt McCoy, Oklahoma has Sam Bradford, Texas Tech has Graham Harrell, and Missouri has Chase Daniel.

Well, Chase was recently asked by Kirk Herbstreit which quarterback beside himself he would want to take the ball in the final two minutes of the game. Daniel chose UT’s McCoy, and the reason he gave may have included a Freudian slip. Thankfully, EVERYDAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY had the video, and it’s after the jump.

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Remember when Oklahoma QBs Sam Bradford and Landry Jones were arrested in July and charged with intent to sell cocaine? No? That’s probably because it never happened, even though some people were fooled by a “story” from THE OKLAHOMAN by Jake Trotter. But Trotter never wrote that story: a Nebraska fan wrote it and used the paper’s template to publish it and make it appear it came from their Web site.

Needless to say, the paper was not pleased, and THE WIZ OF ODDS notes that today they got their revenge. The paper reached a settlement with the writer of the fake story, James Conradt, for an “undisclosed” sum of cash. He also issued a public apology, took down his Web site, and promised to never publish a story online that appears it was written by THE OKLAHOMAN at the risk of a $25,000 fine.

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