yeah right. The Big12 doesn’t have a championship game so it cost them. That same thing has hurt OSU in the past so they added a one game championship at the end of the season. Big12 needs to add that. Hell if you put TCU in then Baylor would complain that they were co-champs and deserve to be there too. Get a championship game in the Big12 then they have the right to complain.
But it’s not big name schools that really drive selection...it’s money. Face it Bama and OSU have huge fan bases if they make it to the tourney it means more revenue for college football and more viewers on TV. I say Bama didn’t deserve to be there at all...they were in the overrated/hyped SEC who only play other crappy SEC teams and say they had a tough schedule. Bama should have been ranked about #5 and TCU should have been up there. But TCU doesn’t have the fanbase Bama does so Bama gets the hype/nod.
Baylor beat TCU. So why should they be ranked higher than Baylor? And this is before the cotton bowl. Personally, I think Baylor and TCU both should have been in the top four. Bama and FSU shouldn’t have been there.