If the Four Corners schools — Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Arizona State — were already part of the Big 12 Conference, where would they be placed in a set of football rankings after Week 3 of the college football season? Deion Sanders has his CU Buffaloes 3-0 heading into Week 4. Utah is also 3-0. Those two schools have plenty of reason to think they can rule the Big 12 once Texas and Oklahoma leave.
It is precisely with that point in mind that we are ranking the Big 12 with the four incoming Pac-12 schools — and without Texas and Oklahoma — during this 2023 college football campaign.
Let’s go to the big board for the latest rankings, reminding you that rankings are based on actual results against opponents with their own results. These rankings do not reflect end-of-season projections or assessments of which team Las Vegas would favor on a neutral field: