The Colorado Buffaloes landed at No. 11 among Big 12 teams in ESPN’s Football Power Index Rankings (FPI) that came out Tuesday.
FPI, a metric that evaluates a college football team’s potential, placed the Buffaloes below most of the conference’s top programs like Kansas State, Arizona State, BYU and TCU. The placement is not surprising, considering the significant roster turnover that took place, including the loss of stars Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter to the NFL.
According to FPI, Colorado is the No. 49 team in the country with a projected record of 6.5-5.5 and an FPI ranking of 4.2. The win-loss mark is similar to what we projected the Buffs to be in our post-spring Big 12 record predictions.
Some other notable programs near Colorado in the rankings include Florida State (No. 48), UCLA (No. 47), Boston College (No. 50) and Bill Belichick’s North Carolina Tar Heels (No. 51).
If we were to go solely on ESPN’s metrics, Colorado would finish the 2025 season 5-7 with wins over Delaware, Houston, Wyoming, Arizona and West Virginia. The Buffaloes, predictably, drop games against Big 12 powers BYU, TCU, Kansas State and Arizona State while also racking up losses to Georgia Tech. Iowa State and Utah.
Without a doubt, Colorado, in the third year under head coach Deion Sanders, is set up for a challenging season by more than one account. Both of ESPN’s metrics, SP+ and FPI, predict the Buffs will win only five games, which would likely result in no bowl game. CU also has the third most challenging schedule in the Big 12 and the hardest conference slate, making a winning season that much more difficult.
Metrics are far from the end-all be-all; that is why they play the games, but they do tell us that a repeat 9-3 regular season from the Buffs would exceed most expectations.
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Publish date : 2025-06-03 21:59:00
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