All but two of the CBS College Football writers pick Arizona 15th or last out of the 16 teams in the conference in their "Big 12 expert picks 2025: Most overrated and underrated teams, projected order of finish, bold predictions."
David Cobb picks Arizona to finish 10th in the Big XII and Brad Crawford picks the Wildcats 11th in the conference. Arizona is mostly an afterthought in the CBS Sports Big XII expert picks. Arizona is not mentioned in the projections about Most overrated team, Most underrated team, or Bold predictions.
Iowa State, Kansas State, Texas Tech and Utah were chosen by four different writers as their projected conference champion.