{"id":142737,"date":"2026-01-29T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:52:12","slug":"texas-tech-is-the-highest-ranked-big-12-team-in-the-final-2025-espn-fpi-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142737\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech is the highest ranked Big 12 team in the final 2025 ESPN FPI rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"57\">Joey McGuire and the Texas Tech Red Raiders should be really proud of what all they accomplished throughout the past football season. Yes, I know plenty of folks are going to point to the College Football Playoff mess of a loss against the Oregon Ducks, but I don\u2019t think that should overshadow everything that the Red Raiders managed to pull off this season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5a\">The Red Raiders, by far, were the most impressive team out of the Big 12 all throughout the season. They pummeled folks left and right and clearly looked like they were ready to compete among the best teams in the country.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5d\">And then the CFP happened and Texas Tech really looked a lot like the Oregon Ducks did against the Ohio State Buckeyes from a season prior.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\">Anyway, focusing again on the Big 12 for a moment, it\u2019s clear that the Red Raiders were the best team in the conference and ESPN\u2019s Football Power Index seems to confirm that with the final ESPN FPI rankings of the 2025-2026 college football season.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech claims the top spot in the Big 12 in the final ESPN FPI rankings of the 2025-2026 college football season<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">Here\u2019s what the Big 12 looks like in the final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/fpi\/_\/group\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN FPI rankings<\/a> of the 2025-2026 college football season (with the Red Raiders at the top, of course):<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech Red Raiders &#8211; No. 6 overallUtah Utes &#8211; No. 8 overallBYU Cougars &#8211; No. 17 overallArizona Wildcats &#8211; No. 29 overallTCU Horned Frogs &#8211; No. 32 overallIowa State Cyclones &#8211; No. 35 overallKansas State Wildcats &#8211; No. 38 overallArizona State Sun Devils &#8211; No. 44 overallHouston Cougars &#8211; No. 50 overallKansas Jayhawks &#8211; No. 51 overallCincinnati Bearcats &#8211; No. 53 overallBaylor Bears &#8211; No. 59 overallUCF Knights &#8211; No. 70 overallColorado Buffaloes &#8211; No. 77 overall\u00a0West Virginia Mountaineers No. 84 overallOklahoma State Cowboys &#8211; No. 113 overall\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">I really do think it\u2019s going to be fun to see what the Big 12 looks like next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">With the Kansas State Wildcats, Iowa State Cyclones, Utah Utes, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys all getting new head coaches, it\u2019s clear that the power structure in the conference is going to change a bit as we move forward (it\u2019s just a question of how much things change and how quickly things change and who moves in what direction).<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">Here\u2019s to hoping that Joey McGuire and his Red Raiders can continue to stay at the top of the Big 12 though. I, for one, would appreciate it if that didn\u2019t change any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey McGuire and the Texas Tech Red Raiders should be really proud of what all they accomplished throughout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-142737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}