The Big 12 power rankings are published weekly by the Hotline throughout the regular season. They are the result of a deep dive into the analytics, an assessment of subjective factors and, when necessary, flips of the coin. No conference has more parity. The parity leads to chaos, and the chaos creates an endlessly compelling product that is not always easy to unscramble.

(Here are last week’s rankings.)

With 11 days remaining before the Territorial Cup, Arizona and Arizona State have the same win total and equivalent momentum.

That wasn’t on our Big 12 bingo card for 2025, but perhaps it should have been, for the Wildcats and Sun Devils have reversed fortunes in expert fashion in recent years.

In 2023, Arizona came from nowhere to win 10 games while ASU floundered at the bottom of the

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