pundits were completely shocked and appalled too. Most of the media who had talked about BYU and scheduling said that very few if any games could be scheduled to actually help BYU. It would have to be a high ranked team. But even that wouldn't jump them to the playoffs. So they were basically a lock for the NY6 and unless they could get a ranked team, there's no point. That was the general consensus pre-CFP's 14th rank.