If the Big 12 ends up having just “One True Champion” in football this season, the smart money is on TCU being the team to come out on top in the eyes of the league’s media members.

The Horned Frogs were the overwhelming choice to claim their first outright Big 12 title, collecting 32 of 42 first-place votes in results the conference released Wednesday. Baylor, which was picked to finish second, got the other 10 first-place votes.

Oklahoma, last year’s media favorite (which ended up tying for fourth place), was picked third, followed by Oklahoma State, Texas, West Virginia, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Iowa State and Kansas.

This is the first time in the non-divisional Big 12 era that the preseason favorite is not from the state of Oklahoma. #OKState #Sooners

— Mark Cooper (@mark_cooperjr) July 16, 2015

TCU was picked to finish seventh last year but shared the Big 12 title with Baylor. Both teams were shut out of the playoffs, but TCU went on to crush Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl to finish with a 12-1 record. The Horned Frogs return 17 starters from that team, including senior quarterback Trevone Boykin (whom the media picked as the preseason Offensive Player of the Year) and four other players who were named to the league’s preseason squad.

Boykin currently sits as the Heisman Trophy favorite, according to Odds Shark, given 6-1 odds to win the award given to college football’s top player.

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Since going back to a single division in 2011, only one team that the media has picked to win the Big 12 has accomplished that feat. That was Oklahoma in 2012.

The Big 12 media days are set for July 20-21 in Dallas.

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