Big 12's Imprint on 2025 College Football Playoff Rankings

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00:00The Big 12 is a two-bid league this year.

00:05They have three teams that are all ranked ahead of the first team from the ACC.

00:09You've got BYU and Texas Tech at 7-8, and then Utah is at 13.

00:14Lift it or leave it?

00:16I don't know, Bob, because BYU Tech play this week.

00:19They could potentially rematch in the conference championship game.

00:23What does Utah do throughout?

00:25Like, they got Baylor, you got Kansas State, Kansas.

00:27Like, you got absolutely smoked by Texas Tech.

00:33For the sake of the Big 10, you want them to be a one-big team.

00:38Cincinnati plays BYU still.

00:40I'm going to – is the Big 12 a two-big-league team this year?

00:45I'm going to say it's going to be Texas Tech, and they're going to be a one-big league.

00:49Yeah, so if you're under that pretense, you're saying the SEC is getting in five?

00:54No, I'm saying –

00:55The SEC is getting in four?

00:55Four.

00:56Well, no.

00:57Okay, so the Big 10 could get four, the SEC could get five, or the ACC could get two,

01:01which isn't going to happen.

01:03Yeah, you know what?

01:03You know what?

01:05I don't know if – I don't see the SEC getting five.

01:08I think if they're going to be a league, you know what?

01:10You've got Oklahoma and Texas sitting there at 11 and 12 that are currently bumped out

01:16because the ACC leader, Virginia, is at 14, and Memphis, the group of five, is unranked.

01:21So they take those last two slots.

01:23So they've got teams lurking right on the outside.

01:25I'm going to lift it.

01:26I think they will get two in.

01:27Because I think that the Big 10, there's a pathway.

01:30When you looked at how they ranked the Big 10 teams, it was a lot different than the AP

01:34when you started looking at the back end of it, Schlegs.

01:37Yeah.

01:37And you start seeing teams that maybe weren't ranked or ranked a little lower,

01:42but then all of a sudden you had USC at 19, you had Iowa at 20, Michigan at 21,

01:48and Washington at 23.

01:49So they tried to help backstop it there.

01:53And so I think one of those teams, I don't know if it could be Michigan,

01:56but Washington or USC, I think there is room where if they run the table

02:00and take care of business, that they could be in that position to be able to get it.

02:05And if you do that, I think that they would be more inclined to have four teams

02:08from the Big 10 than two teams from the Big 12.

02:12I'm going to leave it because I think the Big 10 ends up getting four in this year again.

02:16I think four SEC, four Big 10, that's eight, right?

02:19Group of five, whoever it is.

02:21That's a big game this week, Tulane and Memphis.

02:23Nine, Notre Dame, 10, and then Big 12 and SEC or ACC would both be one bid.

02:2612, so four, four, one, one, one, one.

02:29Remember that whole thing we had back in the beginning of the year?

02:32That's exactly what it would be.

02:33There you go.

02:34We will get to one more here, Slags, and we'll look at this.

02:37Notre Dame, or you call them Notre Dame.

02:40I do.

02:41Yeah, you're Notre Dame.

02:42Notre Dame.

02:43Tress calls them Notre Dame with their correct phonetical pronunciation.

02:49But they are the best two-loss team in the country, lift it or leave it.

02:54That's a great question.

02:56I think Oklahoma, when Matera is healthy and the way they play defense is really good,

02:59I would take Notre Dame over a Utah.

03:04I would take them over, let's see.

03:07You got Texas.

03:08So Notre Dame is ranked 10th.

03:09Yep.

03:10You've got Texas sitting there right behind them at 11 with two losses.

03:15Their losses are to Ohio State and Florida.

03:17So one good one, one stinker.

03:19Here's what I think they're doing, and this is where it goes into, I like to watch this

03:24play out, guys.

03:25Their defense is getting better, and they can run the football.

03:28And so now you can control the clock in any of these games.

03:32Bob, honestly, here's the question to you.

03:35Notre Dame plays Texas neutral side.

03:37Who's favored?

03:37Ooh, that's a good one.

03:40Texas has played a lot better the last couple weeks.

03:41I would still say Notre Dame.

03:43I don't think it's a crazy number, though.

03:44I would say it's within a touchdown.

03:47Maybe Notre Dame between four to six and a half on the high end, maybe three and a half

03:53to six and a half, somewhere in there.

03:55More than a field goal, but less than a touchdown.

03:57And they're also going to take it because for the fact that Marcus got him to the national

04:01championship game last year, they're doing this with a freshman quarterback.

04:03He's playing better.

04:04He actually has, I think, the second best deep balls in the country behind Julian Sane.

04:08It is by a lot, but still, he's playing well for a true freshman.

04:13I'm just saying right now what they've done, what they're doing, having beat USC, again,

04:18the rest of their schedule, they played Navy this week.

04:20It's not like a really tough slate moving forward, but because of their running game, I'm

04:26going to say that they are.

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