For BYU football, the path to the College Football Playoff is straightforward: they need to win their last two games against Cincinnati and UCF to secure a spot in the Big 12 Championship. If they win the Big 12 title, they automatically qualify for the expanded 12-team playoff. But what happens if they lose the Big 12 title game?

On November 16, college football insider Josh Pate hopped onto his namesake podcast and broke down BYU’s playoff picture . Pate explained, “Brigham Young is at 11. I’ve got a concern about them. I know that it’s an unwritten rule that you don’t get punished if you make a conference title game and you’re in the top 12 and you lose the conference title game.”

In other words, the committee has followed this precedent in the past, but it is not an official rule.

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