What's happening, everybody? I'm Pete Mundo, Heartlandcollecoresports.com covering the Big 12

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So hit that subscribe button and we appreciate you being here. So the Big 12, five teams ranked inside

the ESPN FPI top 25. I like to see that. It's very early. I know. We don't know who a lot of the even starting

quarterbacks in some cases are going to be. But I get juice for football this time of year.

Spring games are happening. You're starting to see what teams are going to look like. Now we have

the transfer portal back open so you don't really know. I feel like now you don't know until

week one of the season. Oh, oh yeah. Oh, that's right. He's still on the team. I forgot about him.

Oh, geez, I forgot that guy just transferred in. Jeez, I can't believe that happened. So it is more

difficult than ever. Like I think about Phil Steele, who puts out a great preview magazine, and I sit here

and I say, Phil Steele used to be able to do a lot of that like March. Now he's got to kind of wait.

He's got to wait to see who goes where, what, you know, happens in the transfer portal. It makes

life much more difficult for those guys doing preview magazines. You know, for us, we can wait until July, August.

But for those guys, they got to get it published, they got to turn that thing fast.

So anyway, for the Big 12, five teams sitting inside the top 25.

Texas comes in at five in the Football Power Index rankings from ESPN.

On top of that, you've got Oklahoma at 11, TCU at 17, Texas Tech at 22, Baylor at 23.

So five in the top 25, seven in the top 30.

UCF came in at 26 and Kansas State ranked 27th.

So, and this is just not, if you think about what the ESPN FPI is, right, it's not just like some guys rankings.

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