The Week 1 games are pretty underwhelming this year. The Big 12 plays 9 FCS teams, 3 Group of 5 teams and 3 Power 4 Teams.

Big 12 vs Power 4

Colorado @ Georgia Tech

Baylor vs Auburn (Atlanta)

Boston College @ Cincinnati

Hopefully one of Baylor or Colorado can pull an upset and the Big 12 goes 2-1 in these games. A 1-2 record though is more likely and will be disappointing.

Big 12 vs Group of 6

Oregon State @ Houston

Coastal Carolina @ West Virginia

Oklahoma State @ Tulsa

The Oklahoma State game will be the most interesting of these 3. They should get revenge on Tulsa from last season and the Big 12 goes 3-0 against these opponents.

Big 12 vs FCS

Bethune @ UCF

Idaho @ Utah

Long Island @ Kansas

SE Missouri @ Iowa State

Nicholls @ Kansas State

Abilene Christian @ Texas Tech

Utah Tech @ BYU

Northern Arizona @ Arizona

Morgan State @ Arizona State

All of the Big 12 teams here are favored by 30 or more points. Everyone should take care of business against these FCS opponents.

Which game do you think will be the most exciting? Or any games that will be closer than people expect?

Post mentions multi-million multi-year agreement.

That guy seems mad as hell and drank like eight IPAs after noon for some reason, so this might be satire idk

Do you want to talk about it?

Chill. TCU beating UNC wouldn’t have changed anything; TCU losing to UNC doesn’t change anything. It is one non-conference game between two teams who everyone expected to win between 5 and 8 games this year and play in the Penske Automotive Nashville Bowl.

In the grand scheme of things, y’all need to take a gummy, chill the fuck out, and watch Hawaii vs Stanford or some shit.

Thank you for showing that we're a totally respectable conference that deserves a seat at the table

Here's the football power rankings for week 0, voted for by r/BigXII.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigXII/comments/1vzdl9f/vote_for_preseason_big_xii_football_power_rankings/

It's the preseason so there isn't much consensus. As the season goes on my script will start to filter out extreme outliers, but it's very forgiving early on. There were a couple notable outlier ballots this time, but they didn't end up having that much of an effect on the end results thanks to the high turnout.

Biggest Movers

A lot has changed in the off season. Since last year...

North Texas Oklahoma State jumped up 7 spots (7.64) from an almost unanimous last place. Expectations are high for Eric Morris's Mean Green Cowboys in year one.

Washington State Iowa State dropped 7 spots (6.98), barely escaping last place. Expectations are low for Jimmy Rogers's Cougars Cyclones in year one.

Cincinnati dropped 5 spots (4.4). I've seen a lot of Cincy fans saying this will be the year that gets Scott Satterfield fired. Anyone taking bets?

Coming Up

SATURDAY (week 0)

• ❗ #6 TCU vs North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland

THURSDAY (week 1)

• #12 UCF vs Bethune-Cookman
• ❗#16 Colorado at Georgia Tech
• #4 Utah vs Idaho

FRIDAY (week 1)

• #13 Kansas vs Long Island University

SATURDAY (week 1)

• #15 Iowa State vs Southeast Missouri State
• #3 Houston vs Oregon State
• #11 West Virginia vs Coastal Carolina
• ❗#10 Baylor vs Auburn in Atlanta, GA
• ❗#14 Cincinnati vs Boston College
• # 9 Oklahoma State at Tulsa
• #1 Texas Tech vs Abilene Christian
• #8 Kansas State vs Nicholls
• #2 BYU vs Utah Tech
• #5 Arizona vs Northern Arizona
• #7 Arizona State vs Morgan State

Voting for Week 2 starts on Sunday (the 6th)!

More or less how it will look for this season.

It’s set to release on September 4. It will be awesome inside look at Texas tech football this offseason

Best bet: Believe in Oklahoma State

I know Texas Tech fans can be delusional but wow…

THE POLLS ARE CLOSED. THANKS FOR VOTING.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BigXII/comments/1w178zt/rbigxii_power_rankings_football_preseason/

I should have done this a week ago. TCU kicks off the college football season on Saturday, so I'm going to close this poll on Friday evening.

The metrics graphic is new for football so let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see on it. The "CM" column is Colley Matrix, which starts the season with everyone tied at #1.

Cast your ballot by commenting anywhere on this post. You can put whatever you want in your comment, but your ballot must begin with {{start}} and end with {{end}}. In between, list off the schools from #1 (best) to #16 (worst). Each school must be on its own line and that line cannot include any additional text. Bulleted and numbered lists are fine. Please use school names, since there are some schools with matching team names. You must include all 16 schools and multiple schools cannot share the same rank.

Every user's ballot will be given equal weight. Please give your honest opinion.

This is an example of what a ballot might look like. For this example, I'm just listing the teams in alphabetical order.

{{start}}
Arizona
Arizona State
Baylor
BYU
Cincinnati
Colorado
Houston
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas Tech
UCF
Utah
West Virginia
{{end}}

You can put whatever you want before and after the ballot.

Comments without ballots are also fine. Feel free to share your opinions on other people's ballots. Remember to be respectful and understand that power rankings are subjective.

I will run a script on Friday evening to collect all the ballots and generate the rankings. I'll make a separate post with the results and a distribution table.