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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The latest College Football Playoff Rankings are out — and the Big 12 actually got some respect this week! Cincinnati sneaks back into the Top 25, but BYU being ranked below Notre Dame is a complete joke.
Heartland College Sports’ Pete Mundo breaks it all down: what the committee got right, what they got wrong, and what it means for the Big 12’s Playoff chances heading into Week 12.
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| 0:00.0 | college football playoff rankings are out and for the big 12 there was some good and there was some |
| 0:06.5 | ugly i'm pete mundo heartland college sports where you find us covering the big 12 glad you're here |
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| 0:17.8 | that five-star rating and review. So what did we get? |
| 0:21.7 | We got Texas Tech up a couple of slots after their big win over BYU to number six in the country. |
| 0:28.6 | We have BYU moving down 12 or five slots to number 12. |
| 0:34.5 | We have Utah, idle at number 13, right behind BYU. |
| 0:38.3 | And then we have Cincinnati in the top 25 at number 25. |
| 0:43.6 | They were not ranked last week. |
| 0:46.1 | So I'm happy with the fact that Cincinnati sneaked back into the top 25. |
| 0:52.2 | I didn't see that coming from the college football committee. Now, |
| 0:56.0 | Cincinnati was coming off of bi-week. They got blasted by Utah last time out by 30 points on the road. |
| 1:01.4 | So it surprised me. So I'm like, okay, there's some respect for the Big 12 here. But then I look at the disrespect for BYU. |
| 1:13.9 | Now, you might be saying, Pete, what do you mean, disrespect for BYU? |
| 1:18.2 | Well, BYU was 8-0, loses to Texas Tech on the road. |
| 1:25.0 | And listen, Texas Tech, outside of that loss at Arizona State, Texas Tech is killing everybody for the most part, right? |
| 1:33.4 | And that was the biggest game in Lubbock in years on the road for BYU, college game day, the whole scene there in Lubbock. |
| 1:40.8 | And yeah, I mean, BYU didn't play a great game at all. Didn't play a good game at all. |
| 1:46.1 | But five spots? You kidding me? I mean, you know who else dropped five spots this weekend or this |
| 1:53.3 | week? Louisville, who lost to Cal and Virginia, who lost to Wake Forest, they also dropped five spots. |
| 2:03.4 | But you're telling me that BYU, which just lost to a team right outside the top five in the country, on the road, in their biggest game of the year, also is going to drop five spots? |
| 2:16.4 | Are you kidding me? |
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