Will the Big X be left out of the playoff again this year?
 

The Big X as we know has been hamstrung by not having a conference championship game and by only having 10 teams, and with Baylor's loss this weekend, the Big X now has only one undefeated team left - Oklahoma State, who is due to face two top 10 teams in the next two weeks.

Will the Big X be without an argument to put a team in the playoff again this season, when they end up with multiple 1-loss teams and no way to differentiate them?

No.

Possibly, if ND is in the playoffs.

Pac12 is left out regardless of that scenario.

Definitely. Houston is more deserving than a 1 loss big 12 team if they win out IMO

Even over a 1 loss Oklahoma team(assuming they beat OK St and TCU)?

Oklahoma State will shock the world.

Oklahoma is in perfect position to get in.

Not that it means anything for conference pride. People still call the SEC the best football conference and they haven't sniffed a title in years.

Oklahoma will lose to Oklahoma State.

Clemson, Alabama, ND, and Big10 champ.

When you have a loss against a shitty Texas team, you shouldn't even be considered.

Big XII????

If you're talking about them......I still don't care.

Definitely. That'd be 1 more loss than Houston. The American conference isn't too far behind the big 12 at this point.

Yeah! Except not at all. They're #2 in today's Sagarin and the top team in his predictor rating which looks forward. So not even close bro.

There is a better than 50/50 chance that the Big 12 gets a team in.

If I were predicting today, I'd guess it winds up being...

Ohio State
Alabama
Clemson
Oklahoma

After that, it would be

Notre Dame
Florida
Houston


Oklahoma State and Iowa are both frauds.

I say all this because it's pretty obvious that for the Big X to be sure they are going to get a team in the playoff anymore, that team will have to be undefeated. Otherwise, they're almost always going to end up arguing for their team against several other 1 loss teams, but those teams will have won their respective conference championships.

(Even if they are left out this year, and scramble to put a championship on the schedule next year, are they still going to be able to argue that winning a 10 team conference is the same as winning a 12 or 14 or 16 team conference?)