It has been a wild week in the local sports world, from Charlie Weis getting fired to the Royals making it to and advancing in the playoffs.

Will any of Saturday’s games live up to those standards? Probably not. But our staffers are here to predict this week’s Big 12 games, including Clint Bowen’s head-coaching debut for Kansas at West Virginia, and share their memories of the craziest games they have attended.

WEEK 5 MATCHUPS

Kansas at West Virginia

Iowa State at Oklahoma State

Baylor at Texas

Oklahoma at TCU

Texas Tech at Kansas State

Alabama at Ole Miss

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

The Kansas City Royals somehow came back from a four-run, late-inning deficit to beat the Oakland Athletics 9-8 in 12 innings and with the American League Wild Card on Tuesday. What is the craziest game (any sport) you have ever attended in some capacity — as a fan or sports writer?

Overall: 19-5 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 42, Kansas 14

Oklahoma State 40, Iowa State 31

Baylor 35, Texas 17

Oklahoma 45, TCU 42

Kansas State 38, Texas Tech 28

Ole Miss 24, Alabama 21

Answer: Basketball, James Madison at Navy, Feb. 5, 1987: James Madison hits a shot to go up  71-70 with 2 second left. After a timeout, Navy inbounds the ball to 7-foot-1 David Robinson near half court. Robinson turns and banks in a 40-foot 3-pointer. Navy wins 73-71. Best finish to a game I’ve ever seen live.

Overall: 19-5 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 49, Kansas 10

Oklahoma State 38, Iowa State 28

Baylor 42, Texas 21

Oklahoma 24, TCU 21

Kansas State 45, Texas Tech 42

Alabama 21, Ole Miss 13

Answer: The craziest game I have ever attended was Iowa State vs. Kansas on Feb. 19, 2005, when Cyclones guard Curtis Stinson hit a game-winner in overtime to hand the Jayhawks a rare loss in Allen Fieldhouse. The Cyclones looked to have the game in hand when they had a nine-point lead with less than four minutes to play in regulation, but Keith Langford hit a runner in the lane with six seconds left to force overtime. What made that day more memorable was that I probably should have never went to the game in the first place since I had a 102-degree fever. There haven’t been many more times that I’ve heard Allen Fieldhouse as loud as it was when Langford tied it. While I was happy to see more basketball, I was sweating buckets and felt like my head was about to explode. However, as hot as I felt, J.R. Giddens was equally as cold, shooting 1-for-11 from 3-point range.

Overall: 18-6 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 42, Kansas 10

Oklahoma State 38, Iowa State 17

Baylor 31, Texas 13

Oklahoma 38, TCU 21

Kansas State 35, Texas Tech 21

Alabama 31, Ole Miss 21

Answer: The Los Angeles Dodgers and Montreal Expos played a 21-inning game in Montreal. We had an a.m. paper and a p.m. paper at the Orange County Register so I filed the story, went straight to the airport to fly to New York and took a cab from LaGuardia Airport to Manhattan to cover the Bart Giamatti press conference announcing the lifetime ban of Pete Rose. As far as a crazy moment, it would be Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit home run in the 1988 World Series. When he arrived at the ballpark, he could barely walk. The only question when he left was whether he could walk on water. 

Overall: 18-6 Last week: 6-0

West Virginia 28, Kansas 21

Oklahoma State 45, Iowa State 3

Baylor 45, Texas 28

Oklahoma 102, TCU 14

Kansas State 35, Texas Tech 28

Alabama 55, Ole Miss 52

Answer: The 1993 Kansas Class 6A state championship football game between Lawrence High and Derby. LHS was manhandled, 23-0, in the first half and held under 30 total yards before rallying — behind the likes of Brad Romme and Jason Thoren — for a 27-23 victory to run their consecutive-state-title streak to five years and their overall winning streak to a mind-boggling 34 games.

Overall: 18-6 Last week: 3-3

West Virginia 36, Kansas 7

Oklahoma State 45, Iowa State 24

Baylor 39, Texas 17

TCU 31, Oklahoma 28

Kansas State 44, Texas Tech 20

Ole Miss 28, Alabama 23

Answer: Game 4 of the 2013 ALDS between Detroit Tigers and Oakland A’s. On the brink of elimination, Max Scherzer got into and out of a no outs, bases loaded jam with a one-run lead in the 8th inning to keep the Tigers’ season alive. Unbelievable atmosphere. 

Overall: 17-7 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 38, Kansas 20

Oklahoma State 31, Iowa State 27

Baylor 45, Texas 27

Oklahoma 24, TCU 20

Kansas State 27, Texas Tech 26

Alabama 31, Ole Miss 28

Answer: I was lucky enough to be at Kauffman Stadium for the insanity. When Ventura came in for Shields and surrendered a three-run homer in the sixth the life got sucked out of the stadium. Then the A’s scored twice more before the Royals could even get out of the inning — a real kick to the extremities. That 7-3 score seemed insurmountable for a team that doesn’t exactly slug. Amazingly, the Royals revived the thousands of long-suffering supporters with a three-run eighth, and rode that wave of holy-crap-we’re-still-in-this to tie it in the ninth and win it in the 12th — after falling behind AGAIN. It was bonkers. Instant after-party in the stands. I seriously doubt I’ll ever see/experience anything like that again.

Overall: 17-7 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 35, Kansas 21

Iowa State 24, Oklahoma State 23

Baylor 40, Texas 15

Oklahoma 23, TCU 21

Kansas State 33, Texas Tech 20

Alabama 17, Ole Miss 14

Answer: 2008 Border War football game: KU up 26-10 in the third after heroics by Stuckey and a safety in the first half. Mizzou storms back, takes lead with 6:52 left in the fourth. Touchdowns traded, then Reesing-to-Meier, THEN game-tying kick blocked. Whew.

Overall: 16-8 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 31, Kansas 13

Oklahoma State 38, Iowa State 20

Baylor 40, Texas 20

Oklahoma 33, TCU 19

Kansas State 35, Texas Tech 24

Alabama 31, Ole Miss 23

Answer: I was there. And I can’t responsibly say another game. It was beyond incredible. But if I’m handing out an honorable mention nod I think I’d go with any of KU basketball’s final five games in their run to the title game in 2012. All very good games. All very memorable. 

Overall: 16-8 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 51, KU 14

Oklahoma State 35, Iowa State 20

Baylor 31, Texas 24

Oklahoma 24, TCU 21

Kansas State 37, Texas Tech 13

Alabama 45, Ole Miss 17

Answer: Craziest game I’ve attended: I’ll list a couple. The first is the 1988 NCAA championship basketball game in which KU beat Oklahoma 83-79. It was tied 50-50 at halftime in the 50th anniversary game in Kemper Arena. I remember walking off press row at halftime shaking my head in amazement. Also the 1983 baseball all star game in which Fred Lynn hit a grand slam in the third inning and the fans at Chicago’s Comiskey Park treated the AL team like their own White Sox, cheering wildly and shaking the old stadium. The AL used a crazy third inning to win, 13-3. You had to be there to appreciate how crazy it was in Comiskey. … Another was the KU-Missouri basketball game in which KU battled back from a 19-point deficit in Allen to win in overtime. That was the loudest I’ve ever heard an arena. It was an impossible comeback. It really was.

Overall: 16-8 Last week: 5-1

West Virginia 42, Kansas 7

Oklahoma State 35, Iowa State 24

Baylor 41, Texas 17

Oklahoma 28, TCU 17

Kansas State 35, Texas Tech 27

Alabama 34, Ole Miss 24

Answer: 1986 NCAA regional basketball semifinal at Kemper Arena. Kansas defeated Michigan State, 96-86 in overtime, in a game remembered in part because of a clock malfunction.