While conference realignment strips the Big 12 of its two biggest brands for the 2024 college football season, it also brings the second wave of four newcomers to the mix. Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Arizona State join the league, broadening its horizons as nearly a coast-to-coast conference. While each of those programs is in a different place competitively, at least one figures to contend for league supremacy right out of the gate.
The Big 12’s top tier has an opportunity to send at least one, if not multiple squads to the expanded College Football Playoff on an annual basis. TCU qualified for the four-team field in 2022 and advanced to the national championship game while other schools, like Utah, flirted with the CFP in recent years.
Late Kick host Josh Pate measured the strength of each Big 12 football program over the last three years, using on-field production, program stability, talent acquisition and resource pools as criteria for determining where each stands in the conference pecking order.
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Here are Pate’s Big 12 program power rankings ahead of spring practice:
