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BYU playoff scenarios, explained: How Cougars were eliminated from College Football Playoff after Big 12 championship loss

The BYU Cougars’ Cinderella run to the Big 12 Championship and their hopes of crashing the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff field have come to a disappointing end.

Heading into Championship Saturday, the 11-1 Cougars were positioned as one of the last few teams on the at-large bubble, knowing a Big 12 title victory was their golden ticket to the CFP. However, the No. 11 Cougars were soundly defeated by No. 4 Texas Tech, 34-7, in a contest that essentially served as a playoff elimination game for BYU.

With the loss dropping them to 11-2 and guaranteeing they will fall out of the top dozen in the final CFP rankings, the focus for BYU n

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