Big 12 Football Power Rankings: Week 1

Looking at where each team sits in the Big 12 Conference.

The college football season has arrived. 2023 is the first year of the expanded Big 12, with 14 teams now in the conference after BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF joined last month.

UCF gets the honor of the season's first game among Big 12 teams as they host Kent State on Thursday night.

Each week, we will provide our weekly Power Rankings as voted on by our group of participants. Below are the Week 1 Power Rankings before the first games.

How Power Rankings Are Determined

Once again, we have brought together a group from across the league to vote each week during the season on the Big 12 Power Rankings.

• 44 Total Participants
• TCU FanNation (KillerFrogs) Editorial Staff (13)
• Not all are TCU homers – fans of teams in the SEC and Big Ten are part of our editorial staff.
• One to two fans from each of the other current schools in the Big 12 (23)
• Currently, we don’t have any fans from Cincinnati. We certainly would like to find 1-2 Bearcats.
• Two fans from each of the 2024 incoming “Four Corners” schools (8)
• Each week, each participant provides their rankings 1-10. Those rankings are compiled, and the average rank is then listed below.

Here's where our panel of voters ranked the teams this week:

Big 12 Power Rankings – Week 1

14. West Virginia

Visits at #7 Penn State

13. Cincinnati

Hosts Eastern Kentucky

12. Houston

Hosts UTSA

11. Iowa State

Hosts Northern Iowa

10. BYU

Hosts Sam Houston State

9. Kansas

Hosts Missouri State

8. UCF

Hosts Kent State

7. Oklahoma State

Hosts Central Arkansas

6. Baylor

Hosts Texas State

5. Texas Tech

Visits Wyoming

4. #20 Oklahoma

Hosts Arkansas State

3. #17 TCU

Hosts Colorado

2. #16 Kansas State

Hosts SE Missouri State

1. #11 Texas

Hosts Rice

Other FanNation Power Rankings

How do other FanNations rank the Big 12? Check them out here:

• Kansas – Blue Wings Rising
• West Virginia – Mountaineers Now

Other Big 12 FanNation sites have not yet published a Power Rankings article. We will monitor their sites all season to see if others add them in later weeks.

Note: Power Rankings are determined by a group of fans representing most schools in the Big 12 Conference.

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