ARLINGTON â The Big 12 Conference would certainly benefit from an expanded College Football Playoff and likely never be left out again.
Under the proposed 12-team format that still would be at least a couple of seasons away, six-time defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma would have been in the playoff again last season. Iowa State, which had a league-best 8-1 record in the regular season before losing its first championship game in any conference, would have become the first Big 12 team other than the Sooners to make it.
Neither the Sooners nor Cyclones â picked to finish 1-2 in conference again this season â made it under the current four-team playoff that began seven seasons ago, when Big 12 co-champions TCU and Baylor were left out after the final CFP rankings.