Five Big 12 Teams Ranked in Final CFP Rankings Before Championship Weekend

The College Football Playoff‘s final 2025 poll before Championship Weekend was released on Tuesday night, December 2nd, and in the Big 12 Conference, five teams were ranked. Texas Tech, BYU, Utah, Arizona and Houston all find themselves in the Top 25 this week.

The Texas Tech Red Raiders are fresh off another huge 49-0 win over West Virginia and are now ranked No. 4 in the country. Meantime, BYU comes in at No. 11, their same spot as last week, after crushing UCF 41-21, and then Utah, following a 31-21 win at Kansas, is at No. 15, down two spots from last week. Then, it’s the Arizona Wildcats, following a comeback 23-7 win at rival Arizona State, moving up from No. 25 to No. 18. Lastly, the Houston Cougars, who beat Baylor on the road last week to finish 9-3, appear back in the Top 25 at No. 21.

The Top three ahead of Texas Tech was No. 3 Georgia, No. 2 Indiana and No. 1 Ohio State. Texas A&M, after its loss to Texas, fell four spots from No. 3 to No. 7.

The five highest-ranked conference champions will make the 12-team field, but there is a tweak to the format this year as the committee is using a straight seeding model. The top four teams in the final ranking, regardless of conference championship, will receive a first-round bye.

The four first-round games will be played at the home campus of the higher-seeded teams on December 19th and 20th. The four quarterfinal games will be played at the Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl on December 31st and January 1st.

The two semifinal games will take place at the Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl on January 8th and 9th. The CFP National Championship is scheduled for Jan. 19 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Championship Weekend Coming Up

It’s Conference Championship Weekend coming up in college football, which will include Texas Tech vs. BYU in the Big 12. In the SEC, it’s Alabama vs. Georgia, while Ohio State and Indiana face off in the Big Ten, and the ACC features Virginia vs. Duke. All have College Football Playoff implications.