Notre Dame should be on the phone with a fruit basket company trying to send Texas Tech something for winning the Big 12 Championship. This isn't because they are necessarily congratulating them on winning, but instead because they truly knocked BYU out of the running to get into the College Football Playoff over Notre Dame.
Texas Tech just it's first-ever Big 12 Championship today, and while they celebrate, Notre Dame will as well.
If the Red Raiders had lost today, that would have given BYU the conference championship bid, and Texas Tech is ranked too high to have fallen out.