SALT LAKE CITY (KSL.com) — As BYU and Texas Tech prepare for a potential conference-defining weekend, with the college football world descending on Lubbock, Texas, for ESPN “College GameDay” and one of the biggest games of the weekend, the attention was all on the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season Tuesday night.

How would the Big 12 be viewed in the initial rankings of the season, especially as it relates to its opportunity to get multiple teams into a playoff that heavily favors teams from the Power Two conferences?

Ahead of the season, Big 12 Commission Brett Yormark felt confident his conference could get multiple teams into the second iteration of the 12-team playoff.

“I fully expect the Big 12 to earn multiple College Football Playoff bids this year and to show,

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