ESPN FPI released

[HornPharmD12]

Texas plays 1,9,11,12,14,16,18,21 … with 4 of those as road games 

But yah… we are afraid to schedule TTU 

[Alex Butler]

Tech being 10 is a joke. I mean they’ll win in the ME Big xii craptastic conference even with no QB but I can’t imagine any team on this list being worried about playing them including the only other ME Big xii team. 

[TexasFan]

5 minutes ago, HornPharmD12 said:

Texas plays 1,9,11,12,14,16,18,21 … with 4 of those as road games 

But yah… we are afraid to schedule TTU 

     It seems about right

[Jeff Howe]

 

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[tsip92]

1 hour ago, Jeff Howe said:

 

That’s funny.  SEC with 15 of the top 16 toughest schedules. 

[Jeff Howe]

14 hours ago, tsip92 said:

That’s funny.  SEC with 15 of the top 16 toughest schedules. 

The top 20 is made up entirely of the SEC and the Big Ten. That speaks volumes about the separation between those two conferences and everybody else.

[LILP]

On 7/9/2026 at 8:04 PM, Alex Butler said:

Tech being 10 is a joke. I mean they’ll win in the ME Big xii craptastic conference even with no QB but I can’t imagine any team on this list being worried about playing them including the only other ME Big xii team. 

I can see them winning the Big 12 since it’s not very competitive this year. Another shellacking awaits them in the CFP. They will be exposed again. 

[Alex Butler]

1 hour ago, LILP said:

I can see them winning the Big 12 since it’s not very competitive this year. Another shellacking awaits them in the CFP. They will be exposed again. 

For sure, they’ll win the monster energy big xii but that’ll be the extent of their success. I’d love it if we played them in the playoff and smacked them down again like we did in 23!!

[Joseph English]

People screaming SEC bias are really getting under my skin. They are not wrong, but they don't understand why and that's what pisses me off.  The preseason FPI is working off recruiting rankings and projections. Yes, SEC teams will be overrated. They will be ranked higher because they invest the most in talent. 

By the end of the season, it is no longer about projections and the FPI works out because every conference record balances to 0. At the end of the day, the FPI SOS does not matter compared to the FPI SOR at the end of the season. 

The CFB public pretends they do not believe "you are your record". Penn State last year was a better team than their record. With a 9 game conference schedule there will plenty of SEC teams that are better than their record. A 2-10 SEC team is better than the bottom half of the Big 12...  

[Here for the Wins]

Penn State lost to UCLA and gave up 42 in doing so.  Collectively UCLA scored 43 versus Utah, UNLV and New Mexico and lost all 3.  PSU gave up 36 points and 500+ yards to Rutgers. They did win but that’s a poor Rutgers team. PSU had enough ugly to question what team you were getting.