The first round of College Football Playoff voting did not tell us anything we didn’t already know about the Big 12. The conference begins this playoff race in a distant fifth to its Power 5 peers.
The undefeated frontrunners in the SEC, Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 are holding four of the top five slots in the committee’s initial rankings. No Big 12 team made the top 10. The odds of a Big 12 team ascending to the top four by Dec. 4? Pretty darn slim.
The league will have an exciting four-team conference title race the rest of the way between defending champ Oklahoma - the No.