...going to have this happen probably most often because of the parity between most the schools. Which honestly makes the conf prob the most entertaining because every single game means something.

TCU also had this same thing happen in 2022- were predicted 7th or 8th place out of 10 schools and went to the national championship game.

Texas Tech, on the other hand, was predicted to compete for the B12 title, and ended up 6-6.

In short, preseason predictions are fairly inaccurate, at least in the Big XII