{"id":927310,"date":"2026-06-24T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/927310\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:42:14","slug":"ea-sports-drops-college-football-27-team-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/927310\/","title":{"rendered":"EA Sports drops College Football 27 team rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports&#8217; smash-hit college football video game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/article\/ea-sports-college-football-27-cover-deluxe-stars-22287708.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football 27<\/a> is set for release on July 9, and in preparation for the occasion the game dropped its full rankings for all 138 football teams in Division I.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the rankings for our local colleges like Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&amp;M, ranked from best to worst, along with the full top 10 list below.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sarkisian, Arch Manning and the Longhorns are one of only five teams with an offensive ranking in the 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach and defensive guru Brent Venables has the Sooners&#8217; D ranked at 88 overall.<\/p>\n<p>The defending Big 12 champions have the highest overall ranking in the conference entering 2026, thanks largely to that punishing defense.<\/p>\n<p>The game sees Mike\u00a0Elko&#8217;s Aggies as a well-balanced team with 86s across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Morris takes over a Cowboys team ranked surprisingly high by CFB after winning just one game in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Rhett Lashlee&#8217;s SMU team came back down to earth a bit in 2025 and draws a middle-of-the-pack CFB ranking. Still one of the best offenses in the game, though.<\/p>\n<p>TCU looks to get back into contention in the Big 12 in 2026, but, going by EA Sports&#8217; rankings, it&#8217;ll be an uphill climb for Sonny Dykes&#8217; Horned Frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor enters 2026 with a rather meager 79 overall ranking. Weekend activity: Start a franchise file with the Bears and try to save Dave\u00a0Aranda&#8217;s job.<\/p>\n<p>After losing their head coach and starting\u00a0quarterback\u00a0to Oklahoma State, North Texas enters 2026 without much in the way of expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EA Sports&#8217; smash-hit college football video game College Football 27 is set for release on July 9, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,963,1787,123540,122013,119974,122014,122012,119973,120849,119972,23887],"class_list":["post-927310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-north-texas","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-sports-texas-longhorns","tag-tp-baylor-bears","tag-tp-colleges","tag-tp-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-tp-smu-mustangs","tag-tp-tcu-horned-frogs","tag-tp-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-video-games"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116803727754735612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}