GRAPEVINE, Texas (KSL.com) — BYU’s College Football Playoff candidacy went up to the final week of the regular season, and was formally eliminated when the Cougars weren’t selected as one of 12 teams for the latest CFP bracket Sunday morning.

But the second loss of the season didn’t only knock out the Big 12 runners-up. They’ll face another team impacted by that loss in a bowl game.

The 12th-ranked Cougars accepted an invitation Sunday to the wildly popular and often zany Pop-Tarts Bowl, setting up a season-ending showdown Dec. 27 with ACC foe Georgia Tech.

The bowl game will kick off at 1:30 p.m. MST on ABC.

The Cougars (11-2) were initially set to face the Fighting Irish (10-2) after the last two teams left out of the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket were made available whe

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