It wasn't exactly the redemption arc that many expected from the BYU Cougars in Arlington.
I watched this football game from 2:00 A.M. to 5:30 A.M. local time in Japan, and even I was more awake than BYU during the Big 12 Championship Game.
With their playoff fate resting firmly in the balance of this game's result (a 99.9% to 0.8% pendulum offered to the Cougars by ESPN depending on the final), BYU approached this game anxious to atone for their only loss of the season, to fight for their returning head coach, and make a statement to the college football world, that there were, in fact, two College Football Playoff-caliber teams in the Big 12 Conference.