The Big 12 has started to campaign for BYU to make the College Football Playoff. If the season ended today, BYU would be the first team left out of the 12-team

What a regular season it was for BYU. The Cougars defied all expectations to finish 11-1, with the most recent victory coming Saturday against UCF on BYU's senior day. Kalani Sitake's squad will now head to Texas next week for the Big 12 championship game against Texas Tech.

On Friday night during the first quarter of the rivalry football game between Arizona and Arizona State, Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark was interviewed on the Fox broadcast, and he used the opportunity to lobby for BYU’s inclusion in the 12-team College Football Playoff.

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The Big 12 picture is getting clearer and clearer. Which is the total opposite of last season’s tiebreaker mess. Texas Tech is locked into the Big 12 Championship game, and only UCF stands between BYU and a trip to Dallas.