We spent two days in Frisco at Big 12 Media Days. A wonderful time was had by all parties involved—except for maybe Tom Herman.

1. Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley (doesn’t) know(s) who OU’s starting quarterback is.

Riley might not know who will follow Heisman winner Baker Mayfield as quarterback in 2018. But he’s making sure whoever wins the job walks across hot coals to do it.

And by “whoever” I mean Kyler Murray.

“Kyler is not the quarterback yet,” Riley said. “There is good competition going on and Kyler is going to have to fight like crazy to win this job. It's a different competition. It's very different, both have been Baker's backups in the last two years and they've been in multiple years and they're both ready to be the starting quarterback at Oklahoma. First things first. He's got to win that job."

The “both” in this quote is in reference to redshirt sophomore Austin Kendall. Prior to slightly outplaying Murray during Oklahoma’s spring game, Kendall’s claim to fame was spouting off at Ohio State in 2016 when the Buckeyes traveled to Norman and handed Boomer his head.

Kendall is a mobile-enough pocket passer who has won the respect of his teammates since his mistaken outburst. Still, Kendall wasn’t drafted No. 9 overall in the MLB Draft in June, sign for $4.6 million, and then head back to Norman as a college quarterback rental.

That’d be Murray.

Whoever’s playing quarterback doesn’t seem to matter to most folks who get paid to cover college football. The Big 12 preseason media poll predicted a fourth straight Big 12 title for the Sooners.

2. Baylor coach Matt Rhule’s golf jacket won Day 2 at media days.

Rhule looked like he just got off the 18^th green at Augusta. Still, he wasn’t the best dressed man representing his own program.

"And the award for Best Dressed at #Big12MediaDay goes to... @VVaughnsEra, safety, @BUFootball." pic.twitter.com/o0EptUJ0zx

— FloFootball (@FloFootball) July 17, 2018

“I'm proud to have four of our seniors here,” Rhule said. “Ira Lewis, Greg Roberts, Chris Platt and Verkedric Vaughns, all four great young men and all four college gradates. The only mistake they made is that they all out-dressed me today and I'm proud to be here with those guys.”

3. Iowa State coach Matt Campbell isn’t a uniform guy until he’s a uniform guy.

“The reality for us—and I will be the first one to tell you—I'm probably the biggest uniform guy out there,” Campbell said, “but I do know that we're excited. It's a sleek new look. We will definitely mix and match. We've always done that, no matter what uniforms we've worn, is try to let our kids have great input into what they look like and feel like on game day. I am a big proponent of that.”

Trust the Process. #WinInTheDark pic.twitter.com/YVehPA9Gpw

— Matt Campbell (@ISUMattCampbell) July 10, 2018

Look good, feel good. Feel good, play good.

4. Texas is offensive, and not in a good way.

When Texas coach Tom Herman wasn’t putting his foot in his mouth about having “some” elite players on his roster or getting dunked on repeatedly on Twitter, he was dodging questions about his offense.

The Longhorns have four quarterbacks on scholarship who have a chance to play in 2018: Sam “Hard G” Ehlinger, Destiny’s quarterback Shane Buechele, CalI Cam Rising and Oklahoma’s own Casey Thompson.

Herman spoke like he believed he’ll start the season with Ehlinger at quarterback, a man who took more hits than a Vegas blackjack table in 2017. But he made an argument for all four signal callers.

“Cameron Rising can throw a lot better and move around better than people think and to be honest with you,” he said. “Casey Thompson can throw the ball quite a bit better than people think. I tell you what, it beats having a quarterback room with two scholarship players going through the entire season and for much of the season one of those being injured and out of the game—so really one scholarship quarterback the entire season. To have that depth in that room and the depth be as young as it is, just really excited about where that room is headed.”

He didn’t sound excited to see where his offensive play-calling was coming from, though.

UT fans have been vocal about their disappointment in offensive coordinator Tim Beck. Seems Herman's not exactly his champion at this point either. At least, not enough to say Beck is unequivocally calling the offense to begin the 2018 season.

“The good thing is we don't have to make that decision now in the middle of July,” Herman said. “We're going to do whatever is best for the University of Texas and for our offense. Again, I have always been very intimately involved in the play calling on game day. There isn't a play that's called that I don't have veto power of."

If we’re reading between the lines—and this is big-time college football, so we are—it sounds like Beck is on a leash so short he could sneeze and choke (i.e., Maryland, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State in 2017). It wouldn’t be surprising to see Herman calling the offense in 2018.

5. Gary Patterson took a shot at the SEC.

It was equal parts totally uncalled for and entertaining. He laid out for the folks who believed Riley was throwing shade at Georgia exactly what kind of football is played in the Big 12.

“Georgia has a good defense and they would play well in our conference,” Patterson said, “but it's a little bit more high-flying and more chances being taken and you've got to score points if you want to win. I do believe that we play pretty good defense in this league. It's one of those things where you can't judge it on yardage always."

6. Dana Holgorsen fully supports the Will Grier Heisman campaign.

When West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen wasn’t talking—in my opinion, hypocritically—about why undergraduate players should not be allowed to transfer and play right away, he was stumping for quarterback Will Grier.

The WVU athletic department has gone all-in with its Will Grier for Heisman campaign, and Holgorsen said he’s behind it too.

“I would never approve a campaign unless I felt like a player could handle it,” he said. “That's my job as far as managing players and Will is a very older, mature coach's kid.”

Mountaineer fans will hope they don’t have to find out how mature Grier is. The Sooners saw it work to their advantage when Mayfield planted a flag at Ohio State and asked Baylor who daddy was. They saw Murray start against the Mountaineers when Mayfield grabbed his crotch during the Kansas game. 

Grier’s gonna have to be on his best behavior most of the time, especially if he puts up numbers worthy of the Heisman Trophy.

7. Texas Tech’s strength is the defense—really.

For the first time, possibly ever, Texas Tech’s defense could be the strength of the team and its leader will play linebacker. With an offensive-minded head coach like Kliff Kingsbury, this was not totally unexpected.

Tech defensive coordinator David Gibbs saw it.

“Coach Gibbs and that defensive staff and those defensive players,” Kingsbury said. “When Coach Gibbs took the job four years ago he kind of had to redo it all. He had a vision, knew what he wanted to do, but had to go through two tough years. To his credit, he stuck to his guns, with his philosophy and his recruiting and now we're making strides on that side of the football.”

8. Kansas State coach Bill Snyder is 79 years old.

Bill's still coaching football better than most. Bill's still not giving a good damn about what’s trendy in college football. He sticks to the way he knows how to teach football.

“We have a system in place, been in place for a long time,” Snyder said. “There's a lot to it. We've got a notebook, playbook that's about that thick," he said, holding his fingers four inches apart. "So there's not much missing in there that exists in the game of football. It's all in there, let me put it that way.”

Snyder probably doesn’t sleep. He probably schemes.