. Without these two underperforming, the entire profile of the conference would have been much higher.

Grimes took a talented and established offense and made it underperform to Detmeresque levels. If KU can score more than 17 and 20 points against UNLV and Illinois, then KU wins those games and KU doesn't give the Big 12 two of its worst OOC losses.

Then KW's team underperformed severely because of QB issues that were largely foreseeable.