This BYU team going 10-2, 6-1 vs P5, 5-0 vs the Pac 12, and
2-0 vs AP top 25 while compiling 7 wins vs bowl eligible teams would likely have little doubt in making a NY6 if everyone else wasn’t having great years as well. (I realize we’re currently 1-1 vs top 25, but it’s my understanding those games count as of the date played making us 2-0 in the record books?)
Too bad we’re not competing with these years:
3 loss LSU made the Fiesta bowl during the 2018 season, 3 loss Wisconsin made the Cotton bowl in 2016, and 3 loss Arizona made the Fiesta in the first year of the new playoff format in 2014.
Who knows, maybe the coaching carousel at OU/ND could help us if the coaches leaving bring key transfers with them. Doubtful it’d have an impact on the selection process but you never know.
Bigger problem is our bowl agreements if we don’t qualify for a NY6. It’s dumb we can’t expect a showdown with a ranked Oregon/Wisconsin/Clemson type program as consolation like almost everyone else gets when they just miss out on a NY6.
Big 12 bowl contracts can’t come soon enough