There’s strength in numbers. This phrase applies to many facets of life, but certainly applies to forming informed opinions in college football.
The more we see publications predicting the Texas Longhorns as Big 12 title favorites ahead of April’s spring game, the more confident we become in our gut feeling about the team.
For the past few weeks we’ve shared conference scoring predictions from Athlon Sports and Kevin Flaherty of 247Sports. Both publications ranked Texas at the top of their predictions.
Longhorns Wire released their own standings prediction which also gives Steve Sarkisian’s squad high ratings. As rankings and records fluctuate and we need to add more releases to this combined leaderboard, we want to get a better sense of where each team stands in our first combined standings prediction.
Mountaineers from West Virginia
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Athlon Prediction: #14
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 13
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 12
Record prediction: 4-8
Cincinnati Bearcats
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Athlon Prediction: #11
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 14
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 13
Record prediction: 5-7
Houston Cougars
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Athlon Prediction: #13
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 9
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 14
Record prediction: 3-9
Oklahoma State Cowboys
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Athlon Prediction: #9
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 11
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 11
Record prediction: 5-7
BYU Cougars
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Athlon Prediction: #12
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 7
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 10
Record prediction: 6-6
Hurricanes in the state of Iowa
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Athlon Prediction: #10
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 12
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 7
Record prediction: 7-5
Kansas Jayhawks
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Athlon Prediction: #8
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 8
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 9
Record prediction: 7-5
UCF Golden Knights
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Athlon Prediction: #7
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 10
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 8
Record prediction: 7-5
Baylor Bears
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Athlon Prognosis: #6
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 6
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 6
Record prediction: 7-5
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Athlon Prediction: #5
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 5
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 5
Record prediction: 8-4
Kansas State Wildcats
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Athlon Prediction: #4
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 2
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 4
Record prediction: 9-3
Oklahoma earlier
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Athlon Prediction: #3
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 3
Joey Hickey Prediction: No. 3
Record prediction: 10-2
TCU Horned Frogs
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Athlon Prognosis: #2
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 4
Joey Hickey Prediction: #1
Record prediction: 10-2
Texas longhorns
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Athlon Prognosis: #1
Kevin Flaherty Prediction: No. 1
Joey Hickey Prediction: #2
Record prediction: 10-2
Story originally appeared on Longhorns Wire