With the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings set to drop Tuesday night and Selection Sunday closing in, the messaging from across the Big 12 grows increasingly unified. Commissioner Brett Yormark argued the league deserves two bids in this year's 12-team playoff -- and the outcome of Saturday's Big 12 title game should not change that.

No. 5 Texas Tech enters championship week sitting firmly inside the projected field, but No. 11 BYU remains outside the at-large cut line. If the bracket were released today, the Cougars would miss the playoff despite an 11-1 record and their only loss coming to the Red Raiders. BYU effectively needs to win Saturday to secure its bid.

Yormark further argued a clear blind-résumé gap between BYU and several teams ahead of in the rankings,

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