BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Utah coach Kyle Whittingham turns 66 on Friday and certainly wouldn’t mind a belated birthday present from Cincinnati. It would be a gift for several teams around the Big 12, actually.

Because if the Bearcats knock off No. 11 BYU at home on Saturday night, the door opens for chaos in the conference standings.

Assume, for the sake of argument, that No. 6 Texas Tech (10-1, 7-1) — off this weekend — grabs the top seed. And assume, again for the sake of argument, that BYU (9-1, 6-1) falls, there could theoretically be a five-way tie for the other spot in the title game.

So, yeah, those two conference loss teams — that’s you, No. 13 Utah (8-2, 5-2), No. 25 Houston (8-2, 5-2), Arizona State (7-3, 5-2) and Cincy (7-3, 5-2) — have a lot invested in Saturday. If five te

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