The Big 12 championship game is a rematch of 11-1 teams Texas Tech and BYU. But likely the only way both of them get into the 12-team College Football Playoff is if the 11th-ranked Cougars beat the No.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire advocated Monday for BYU and Texas Tech to make the playoff regardless the result in Saturday’s conference championship game. In the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff last year, the Big 12’s lone representative was conference champion Arizona State.

Reports are emerging that BYU football head coach Kalani Sitake is having talks with Penn State about their head coach vacancy.

Texas A&M is out of the top five in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in two months.

The Texas Tech football team steamrolled an overmatched West Virginia squad to close the regular season in dominant fashion.

BYU took a shot at Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian in connection to comments he made about College Football Playoff.

BYU took a swing at Texas coach Steve Sarkisian for comments he made Friday regarding the Longhorns’ deservingness of making the College Football Playoff. Following a win against No. 3 Texas A&M, Sarkisian stated that it would be “a disservice to our sport if Texas did not make the CFP.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Behren Morton threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, linebacker Jacob Rodriguez scored his second offensive TD in as many games, and No. 7 Texas Tech beat West Virginia 49-0 on Saturday in the Red Raiders’ final tuneup before the Big 12 championship game.