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Where each Big 12 team ranks in ESPN’s updated FPI

Here is a look at where each Big 12 team stands in ESPN’s FPI ahead of the 2022 season.

ESPN’s Football Power Index has high expectations for Texas this season. Continue reading “Where each Big 12 team ranks in ESPN’s updated FPI”

Where Texas ranks in ESPN’s preseason Football Power Index for 2022

ESPN’s FPI is extremely high on Texas having a bounce-back season in 2022.

As spring practice is wrapping up for most schools across the nation, many people are ready to look ahead to the start of the 2022 season.

EPSN released its preseason Football Power Index early this week, the rankings featured familiar faces at the top with a few major surprises throughout the list.

  1. Alabama
  2. Ohio State
  3. Georgia
  4. Clemson
  5. Notre Dame
  6. Texas
  7. Michigan
  8. Oklahoma
  9. Pitt
  10. Auburn
  11. LSU
  12. Penn State
  13. Oklahoma State
  14. Texas A&M
  15. Utah
  16. Michigan State
  17. Ole Miss
  18. Miami
  19. Baylor
  20. Kentucky
  21. Wisconsin
  22. North Carolina
  23. Oregon
  24. Mississippi State
  25. Florida

Their FPI is extremely high on Texas having a bounce-back season in 2022. It ranks the Longhorns as the top team in the Big 12 conference and No. 6 in the country.

Oklahoma (No. 8), Oklahoma State (No. 13) and Baylor (No. 19) round out the rest of the conference that made ESPN’s cut.

FPI gives Texas a 41% chance to win the Big 12 and a 21% chance to make the College Football Playoff. High praise for a team that finished 5-7 a year ago.

The Longhorns do return many key pieces including Bijan Robinson and Xavier Worthy, but Steve Sarkisian’s team has many question marks to figure out in order to live up to this projection.

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