Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, BYU football coach Kalani Sitake and Texas Tech's Joey McGuire made the case Monday for the league getting two berths in the CFP, regardless of Saturday's outcome.

BYU football head coach Kalani Sitake sidestepped the rumors of him leaving for Penn State before the Big 12 title game.

"I'm all about the Big 12 championship and keeping our team focused on that. So I'm going to avoid all the distractions," Sitake said.

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.

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What a regular season it was for BYU. The Cougars defied all expectations to finish 11-1, with the most recent victory coming Saturday against UCF on BYU's senior day. Kalani Sitake's squad will now head to Texas next week for the Big 12 championship game against Texas Tech.

Texas Tech, whose lone loss came at Arizona State on Oct. 18, pitched a shutout against West Virginia, while Brigham Young overcame a slow start and throttled Central Florida on the last weekend of conference play.