DCTF's 2012 Texas College Power Poll — Week Six
| # | School | Last Week Rank |
| 1 | Texas Longhorns | 1 |
| Travis Stewart: UT may have lost just minutes after A&M completed a fine comeback against Ole Miss, but Texas was also playing the nation’s eighth-best team and beat A&M’s victim by 35. For now, Texas stays at No. 1. | ||
| t-2 | Texas A&M Aggies | 2 |
| Brad Hilliard: Instead of a bye week, Mother Nature has matched the Aggies up against a very pesky Louisiana Tech squad this weekend. | ||
| t-2 | Baylor Bears | 5 |
| Greg Tepper: Nobody benefitted from a bye week more than the Bears, considering two teams ahead of them -- Tech and TCU -- lost at home. | ||
| 4 | Texas Tech Red Raiders | 3 |
| Jake Shaw: The Red Raiders must avoid another post-Oklahoma letdown. | ||
| 5 | TCU Horned Frogs | 4 |
| Adam Hochfelder: Injuries and drug/alcohol suspensions along with youth translate into TCU being a pretty “Not good” football team right now. With the team they fielded against Iowa State, each week will be a battle to get to six wins at this stage. | ||
| 6 | SMU Mustangs | 10 |
| Brad Hilliard: The past two weeks have been very big steps in the right direction for the Mustang defense. | ||
| 7 | Houston Cougars | 9 |
| Greg Tepper: Write this down, Houston coaching staff: when you get Charles Sims going -- and 210 yards and a touchdown counts as "getting going" -- things get a lot easier. | ||
| 8 | UTSA Roadrunners | 8 |
| Jake Shaw: The Roadrunners' rise in the power poll will be on the line with the game at Rice on Saturday. | ||
| 9 | UTEP Miners | 7 |
| Adam Hochfelder: Where was the team that was threatening OU in the fourth quarter? They sure did not show up at home against the Mustangs. | ||
| 10 | North Texas Mean Green | 6 |
| Brad Hilliard: This year’s Mean Green squad is better than 2011’s, but unfortunately for UNT the entire Sun Belt is way up. | ||
| 11 | Texas State Bobcats | 11 |
| Jake Shaw: It's safe to say the momentum from the season-opening win at Houston has completely vanished. | ||
| 12 | Rice Owls | 12 |
| Greg Tepper: I don't care that it was on the road. Losing to Memphis represents rock bottom for the David Bailiff regime at Rice. | ||
ABOUT THE PANEL:
> Travis Stewart is the managing editor of DCTF
> Greg Tepper is the associate editor of DCTF
> Adam Hochfelder is the Executive Director of DCTF and several other IMG College properties
> Brad Hilliard is the operations coordinator for DCTF and several other IMG College properties
> Rick Epstein is an account executive for DCTF several other IMG College properties
> Jake Shaw is a contributor to TexasFootball.com
