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Big 12 FPI rankings: Week 8

ESPN's Football Power Index is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of performance going forward for the rest of the season. Every week, ESPN will be updating its FPI to compile a ranking based on 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season using results to date and the remaining schedule.

In the updated standings, Oklahoma and Baylor held onto their top-10 rankings despite losses, but the new Big 12 title odds saw the kind of shakeup you'd expect after what we witnessed Saturday.

Baylor (31 percent) and TCU (30.9) are the co-favorites to win the Big 12 now, according to FPI, and both are now projected to win 9.8 games. There's a gap between those two, Kansas State (18 percent) and Oklahoma (11.5) in the conference title odds. West Virginia is now in the hunt, too, with 8.1 percent odds of winning the league.

A week ago, FPI graded the odds of either OU or Baylor taking the title belt at about 85 percent. It's wide open now.

WVU made a nine-spot jump into the top 30 nationally with its upset win over Baylor, while Oklahoma State and Texas each dropped back nine spots in the rankings. Here's how they and the rest of the conference stack up going into Week 9: