# Who will the Frogs lose the belt to? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 5, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082 "2015-09-05T21:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/1 "2015-09-05T21:51:27Z")
Last year TCU won the Belt from the Sooners, immediately lost it to Baylor, and won it back from WVU three weeks later. This week, the kept it out of the Gophers’ paws. How much longer can they hold onto it? [History of "the Belt](http://collegefootballbelt.com/Seasons.htm) Who they are playing: 9/12 Stephen F. Austin (2:30ct) 09/19 SMU 09/26 @ Texas Tech 10/03 Texas 10/10 @ Kansas State 10/17 @ Iowa State 10/29 West Virginia 11/07 @ Oklahoma State 11/14 Kansas 11/21 @ Oklahoma 11/27 Baylor Make your picks before the start of the next game. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/2 "2015-09-06T00:45:05Z")
First voter. I don’t know from college football, but I picked Texas. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/3 "2015-09-06T01:42:37Z")
Well, so far today, the Longhorns are struggling badly against the Irish, but that may just be today. I picked WVU for sentimental reasons. Although, it would be nice to see the belt make its way out of the Big 12. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/4 "2015-09-09T01:39:19Z")
In an ever so subtly disguised effort to bump the thread, here are the votes so far Texas: **ekedolphin** , **Rick Kitchen** West Virginia: **eschereal** , **LuckyNumber85** Oklahoma: **basset hound** Baylor: **Oredigger77** , **txtumbleweed** Bowl Opponent: **Munch** , **notfrommensa** no one this year: **astorian** ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/5 "2015-09-09T13:38:01Z")
K-State, who will immediately lose it to Oklahoma the following week, who will lose it back to TCU by the end of the regular season, who will lose it Alabama in the National Semi-final, who lose it to Ohio State in the National Championship. How’s THAT for a prediction? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/6 "2015-09-09T14:12:34Z")
I have some doubts about them making it past K State, but I had to give it to my hometown boys at Iowa State in an upset. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/7 "2015-09-11T19:23:01Z")
Just though I would mention this poll is going to close in about two and a half hours (sorry it was so early), in case you were holding off making a pick. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/8 "2015-09-12T04:36:42Z")
Here are the picks, now that the poll is closed: Texas – **ekedolphin** , **Rick Kitchen** Kansas State – **Chingon** , **Jackknifed Juggernaut** Iowa State – **Death of Rats** West Virginia – **eschereal** , **LuckyNumber85** Kansas – **racer72** Oklahoma – **Barkis is Willin’** , **basset hound** Baylor – **Omar Little** , **Oredigger77** , **txtumbleweed** Bowl Opponent – **bump** , **Munch** , **notfrommensa** no one this year – **astorian** , **gnoitall** Good luck, everyone, see you in October, since _they are not going to lose before then_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/9 "2015-10-11T00:57:47Z")
TCU looking pretty shaky so far this evening against Kansas State. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/10 "2015-11-08T00:47:04Z")
TCU goes down with a clunk. And no one here picked the Cowpokes. My guess is they will not be back in the top ten this year, though they might get a nice late-December bowl. The Angostura Bitters Bowl, or somesuch. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/11 "2015-11-11T14:29:53Z")
It’s been since 2011 that the SEC had a grip on The Belt and with schedules being what they are it may be a long time before The Belt gets out of the Big XII. Do we need a new thread to cope with the Cowboys’ chances of catching up with TCU or Baylor? (See [http://collegefootballbelt.com/Seasons.htm](http://collegefootballbelt.com/Seasons.htm) ) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/12 "2015-11-11T14:57:16Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > It’s been since 2011 that the SEC had a grip on The Belt and with schedules being what they are it may be a long time before The Belt gets out of the Big XII… That’s what bowls are for. I wonder if colleges and players acknowledge The Belt when motivating themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/13 "2015-11-11T16:16:47Z")
Hmmm, Okie State with an away game at Iowa State, followed by the final two at home, Baylor and Oklahoma. Then a bowl game or a national playoff game, if the Big 12 doesn’t get fucked this year. Cowboys competing in lofty altitudes, easy to let the belt melt off you when you’re flying so close to the sun. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-will-the-frogs-lose-the-belt-to/730082/14 "2015-11-29T02:52:34Z")
Well now, looks like **txtumbleweed** , **Oredigger77** and **Omar Little** accomplished something like the opposite of winning. As soon as we know who the froggies will be going up agin in the Whichever Bowl, we will set up a new pick’em thread.