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2025 Big 12 Football: Which Underdog Could Shock the Nation and Claim the Title?

2025 Big 12 Football: Which Underdog Could Shock the Nation and Claim the Title?

After that, the Big 12 decided not to run a preseason poll anymore, and perhaps that’s good for those of us who try to handicap these teams in the summer. You can’t watch your last-place pick win the league if you didn’t pick anyone to finish last. 

Nevertheless, we persist.

The Opta supercomputer is never fearful of pushing out its preseason predictions. It calculates its projections with the help of TRACR (Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster), which combines play data from the prior season with adjustments for recruiting class rankings, transfer portal additions, and other offseason roster turnover.

The Opta supercomputer also accounts for each team’s strength of schedule (both last year and this year) and then reaches a projected record for 2025. It’s important to note that because of differences in strength of schedule, a team can be No. 1 in the TRACR rankings but not projected to finish with the best record in the league.

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