Mario Cristobal and No. 12 Miami have made their case for an at-large bid to the College Football Playoff this season. Whether the selection committee reverses course and finally bumps the ACC's highest-ranked team ahead of Notre Dame as the last team in -- considering the head-to-head result -- remains to be seen.

If you're a Miami fan, you're rooting hard for fourth-ranked Texas Tech to beat No. 11 BYU in the Big 12 Championship Game, handing the Cougars their second loss of the campaign. The Red Raiders already torched Kalani Sitake's team once this season and are nearly a two-touchdown favorite this weekend.

Since BYU (11-1) is ahead of Miami (10-2) in the committee's penultimate top 25, the Cougars are playing for a spot in the CFP bracket and control their own desti

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