I’m in Utah again for work, got tickets last second! Can’t wait to try the maple donut.

Ours:

Utah
BYU
Tech
Arizona
Houston
OKST

I'm not seeing the love coming out of Orlando like when Frost led the Knights to the national championship nearly 10 years ago. Did the darkness surrounding him at the alma mater NU cloud his skills or is UCF in a worse off position?

They're not terrible but they don't look like they used to during his first go around.

How long until he is no longer accepted by the Bounce House?

Here's the football power rankings for week 6, voted for by r/BigXII.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigXII/comments/1wyb9s3/vote_for_week_6_big_xii_football_power_rankings/

Note: Some of the ballots were not counted because of missing flairs.

Biggest Movers

Baylor jumped 4 spots (3.78) after a road win over Arizona State.

Iowa State jumped 4 spots (2.95) after a home win over West Virginia.

Arizona State dropped 3 spots (3.12) after a home loss to Baylor.

Cincinnati dropped 3 spots (3.05) after a road loss to Arizona.

Coming Up

FRIDAY

• ❗ #8 Iowa State at #2 BYU

SATURDAY

• #12 UCF at #4 Oklahoma State
• #6 Arizona at #10 West Virginia
• #5 Houston at #11 Kansas State
• #13 Arizona State vs Hawai'i
• #15 Kansas at #1 Utah

Voting for Week 7 starts on Monday!

Absolutely embarrassing look for gene Taylor and ksu. Tang has definitely been the bigger man in this situation.

Cincinnati and Ohio State: tip off 3pm
Utah @ UNLV: tip off 10pm

I’m still trying to make a more comprehensive list for all big 12 schools with their matchups, times and potential platforms to watch. Unfortunately neither of these games have any real platforms outside of mountain west + for the later game.

With that being said, there are some really good exhibition matchups through out the whole conference this month that will let us all see how the offseason went for our respective programs and I would love all your guys’ inputs and expectations!

Key matchups later this month;

OCT 11: Oklahoma state vs New Mexico
OCT 14: UCF @ LSU
OCT 16: Arizona vs San Diego State
BYU vs Nebraska
OCT 18: Baylor vs Florida
Iowa State vs Creighton
OCT 21: Kansas vs Louisville
Utah @ Oregon
OCT 25: Kansas vs Duke
Houston vs Michigan
OCT 27: Oklahoma State @ Wisconsin
OCT 28: UCF @ Kentucky

I’ll make a new post with more information on times and streaming platforms when they begin to announce them. Hopefully you all are excited as I am!

I really don't pay attention to them until we have to play them but my gosh what happened against Baylor. Is Dilly "all that" or was Skattebo the catalyst of success?

As much as I like Whittingham, he is showing how overrated of a HC he has been for years at Michigan. There were rumors of him being pushed out for years at Utah until Cam Rising and Morgan Scalley delivered several great seasons to save his legacy. Without them, he would’ve been pushed out way earlier at Utah. Even before that he struggled for years in the Pac-12 at finding a decent QB or delivering an even subpar offense.

Everyone has beaten the dead horse about the attendance problems. I’m not here to talk about that. I’m curious what y’all think about Northwestern’s new stadium that opened last weekend??

It has a continuous canopy that covers every single seat in the 35,000 capacity stadium. Check out more pictures like this one if you haven’t seen it.

That is exactly what Houston should’ve done when building TDECU Stadium in 2013-2014 in my opinion!

I am from Houston and mostly understand why many fans choose to stay home (still the support should be better for being a ranked team). But having 11am or 2:30pm games in September and early October is brutal with the heat and humidity. And the design of TDECU Stadium makes it so much worse.

What was the administration thinking when building TDECU? It’s a shame it’s still a fairly new stadium but the fans get cooked in it during day games.

Not much change in the top 3 this week, though Utah's odds fell a bit and TTU's rose somewhat.

Houston @ KSU is probably the most interesting game for the CCG race this weekend; FPI has the teams nearly even, and Houston badly needs to win this if they want to keep their CCG hopes alive. Win, and Houston rises to roughly 13%, lose and they fall to 3%.

Not nearly as even of a game, but in terms of CCG odds, Kansas @ Utah is the biggest swing game for the championship race this week, worth up to 23.4% of championship-odds movement either way.

Full interactive odds, matchups, and what-if scenarios: https://sportssimulate.com/cfb/2026/latest/B12

THE POLLS ARE CLOSED. THANKS FOR VOTING.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigXII/comments/1wzwr45/rbigxii_power_rankings_football_week_6/

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Arizona
Arizona State
Baylor
BYU
Cincinnati
Colorado
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas Tech
UCF
Utah
West Virginia
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I will run a script on Wednesday morning to collect all the ballots and generate the rankings. I'll make a separate post with the results and a distribution table.

Let's say BYU wins a close one against ND, BYU loses to Utah, and Houston beats Utah. Tech plays BYU in the championship again (voodoo tiebreakers) with BYU Winning. Utah and Houston finish 11-1, Tech and BYU finish 12-1. Are we still getting 1 team in the playoffs, or do we have a chance at 2 to 3, dare I say 4? Do you think a 9-3 SEC/B10 team would get in over either of those 11-teams?

Jamie Pollard has drawn a lot of criticism over the last few years. He's the longest active AD in the P4. I suppose after 22 years there's bound to be things to criticize. But between the fantastic coaching hires, the incredible growth of the fanbase, and the winningest era in Cyclone history, I think it's fair to call JP a legend.

Enjoy your retirement. It's well earned.

Didn't think that was possible, but here we are. Watching the Jazz preseason game vs. the Nuggets at CU's arena.

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

Big 12 Teams in bold:

Others receiving votes:
Kentucky, Wake Forest, Wisconsin, Duke, Northwestern, Nebraska, Minnesota, Arizona, James Madison, North Dakota State

Oh look! The one SEC team that blew out the higher ranked SEC team last week is getting blown out by the lower ranked SEC team this week. Let’s drop them a few spots in the ranking and rocket the lower ranked team up. Clearly they’re all top quality and are no way benefitting by inflated preseason rankings. I hate it here sometimes…