The Big 12 has new hope. And it comes, of all places, from West Virginia, which throttled Texas Tech 48-17 on Saturday in Lubbock. Just when you thought the Big 12’s College Football Playoff chances were dead -- OK, that was three weeks ago -- the Mountaineers arrived to offer a glimmer of something.
Is it fool's gold?
Consider that of the nine Power 5 unbeatens, the Big 12 and the SEC have two, the Big Ten has three, the Pac-12 and the ACC have one.