Halloween Rankings: The Big 12’s Trick-or-Treaters and Title Contenders

BYU has a bye this week, and I thought it would be a good time to release a video about the Big 12 rankings at this point in the season.

Oct. 31, 2025

The only thing on my sports calendars is

• Utah Jazz @Phoneix Suns
• Dodgers at Blue Jays

So no Big 12 games to speak of

Let’s talk about rankings

Pre-Season

Here is the breakdown of the preseason rankings

Big 12 Preseason Ranking
Date	Aug. 14 2025
1	Kansas State Wildcats
2	Utah Utes
3	TCU Horned Frogs
4	Texas Tech Red Raiders
5	Arizona State Sun Devils
6	Iowa State Cyclones
7	Baylor Bears
8	BYU Cougars
9	Kansas Jayhawks
10	Colorado Buffaloes
11	Oklahoma State Cowboys
12	UCF Knights
13	Cincinnati Bearcats
14	West Virginia Mountaineers
15	Arizona Wildcats
16	Houston Cougars

A lot has changed

Rankings as of Oct. 31, 2025

Here are the rankings as of Halloween night (apparently, I didn’t update the blog correctly when doing this post and video)

Ranking Now	Team	Pre-Season Rankings
1	BYU	8
2	Cincinnati	13
3	Houston	16
4	Texas Tech	4
5	TCU	3
6	Utah	2
7	Arizona State	5
8	Kansas State	1
9	Iowa State	6
10	Baylor	7
11	Kansas	9
12	Arizona	15
13	UCF	12
14	Colorado	10
15	West Virgina	14
16	Oklahoma State	11

Are you surprised by the rankings?

Thoughts

Here are my thoughts

• I am not surprised that BYU is on top again
• I am not amazed that Kansas St. isn’t on top
• I am not Surprised that Utah isn’t on top
  • They have some potential
  • But they aren’t the best in the Big 12.

Next Week

The next blog will review the Texas Tech Game on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. Videos will also be posted on my Just Justin YouTube channel.

YouTube

Head on over and listen to me talk about this. I had the wrong data for the video and noticed it too late.