Folks, the Texas Tech Red Raiders are the best team in Texas. That’s at least what ESPN’s Football Power Index is saying and that seems good enough to me right now. It’s not the Texas A&M Aggies. It’s not the Texas Longhorns. It’s not the Rice Owls.
It’s the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Joey McGuire’s Texas Tech football team sits above every single other team from the Lone Star State in the FPI rankings ahead of Week 14.
Here’s how the various different college football teams from Texas rank in ESPN’s FPI this week:
Texas Tech Red Raiders ranked higher than every other team from Texas according to ESPN FPI
- No. 7 Texas Tech Red Raiders (Big 12)
- No. 9 Texas A&M Aggies (SEC)
- No. 12 Texas Longhorns (SEC)
- No. 23 SMU Mustangs (ACC)
- No. 34 TCU Horned Frogs (Big 12)
- No. 42 North Texas Mean Green (American)
- No. 53 Baylor Bears (Big 12)
- No. 57 Houston Cougars (Big 12)
- No. 65 UTSA Roadrunners (American)
- No. 80 Texas State Bobcats (Sun Belt)
- No. 123 UTEP Miners (CUSA)
- No. 124 Rice Owls (American)
- No. 135 Sam Houston Bearkats (CUSA)
It’s great to see the Red Raiders still holding on to the top spot among teams from the state of Texas, according to the FPI rankings. Ahead of the Week 14 slate of games, Texas Tech is ranked ahead of the likes of the Texas A&M Aggies and the Texas Longhorns.
And that, folks, is great to see.
It’s also great to see that the Red Raiders are holding a fairly significant advantage over the other Texas teams in the Big 12. The TCU Horned Frogs are sitting at No. 34, the Baylor Bears are all the way down at No. 53, and then there’s the Houston Cougars at No. 57. That is also great to see.