Welcome to the 2025 post-Week 4 edition of the SicEm365 Premium “Big 12 Power Poll.” Over the last few days, the awesome members of our Premium Forums had access to a simple form to rank the football teams of the Big 12, however they saw fit, heading into Week 5 of the 2025 season.
Here are the results:
After a disappointing loss to Arizona State — a game that the Bears had to find a way to lose — Baylor fell three spots further to No. 7.
Texas Tech is the newest top team in the Power Poll thanks to its 34-10 win over Utah last weekend. The Red Raiders are now the fourth team to hold the top spot this year.
Elsewhere, the biggest movers of the week were Utah, which dropped five spots to No. 6, TCU, which jumped up three spots to No. 2, and West Virginia and UCF, which swapped spots at No. 15 and No. 12, respectively.
Overall, the top half had a lot more movement than the bottom half, thanks to four of those eight teams playing each other and TCU picking up a good win against rival SMU.
With Mike Gundy now fired after the Oklahoma State loss to Tulsa, the Cowboys will be lucky to get out of the bottom spot throughout the rest of the year.
New this week, we have a graph showing the changes in rankings across the entire season!
Baylor is down six spots overall this season after SicEm365.com premium members picked the Bears as the favorites at the start of the season. Other big movers to date include TCU up five spots to No. 2, UCF up four to No. 12, Colorado down four slots to No. 14, and, of course, Kansas State’s massive fall from No. 3 to No. 13.
Also, if you’re someone who likes to dabble in simple statistics, I also pulled the min, max and mode for each team. That is the top rank, bottom rank and most common ranking. I did not remove the top 5% and bottom 5% of placements for best, worst and most common here (but I did for the average rank, so sorry for any confusion).
This week we were down in total response — 46 voters last week to 30 this week — so keep that in mind as you peruse the data.
For first-place votes, Utah lost all 18 of theirs, and Texas Tech gained 18 to finish with 21. Iowa State earned four first-place votes (including our own Ashley Hodge’s), making that one more than TCU, which was a spot ahead of the Cyclones at No. 2.
And as always, the best and worst ranks — especially the disparity between them — is a fun thing to look at in this conference in particular. There are pretty negative opinions about almost every team after just four games. In fact, half of the teams in the conference were tabbed as either the worst or the second-worst team in the Big 12. There was no prompt for how to rank teams, mind you, so this does not necessarily mean that someone truly thinks Baylor will turn out to be the second-worst team in the conference; that is just where their “power level” is after the loss to Arizona State.
If you want even more numbers, I’ve got them. How about the differences between the post-Week 3 rankings and the post-Week 4 rankings?
With all of those numbers, charts and graphs provided to you, where do you draw the lines for tiers in the Big 12? Which teams are the premium members underestimating or overestimating currently?
One last question: how did the staff of SicEm365.com do with their rankings this week? Below is the full breakdown of our individual responses to the poll.
Let us know what you think in the comments, and for you, premium members, look out for the next Big 12 Power Poll on Sunday, Sept. 28!
