That doesn't mean the Horned Frogs (10-2, 7-2, No. But a loss could unravel everything the league had hoped for by resuming its championship game after a six-season hiatus.Įven TCU coach Gary Patterson acknowledged, when asked this week, that 'probably the best (outcome) for the Big 12 is Oklahoma to win.' 3 CFP) would almost certainly be a lock for one of the four playoff spots even without another win. It's a great thing, I think, for our league to showcase two great football teams going at it.' 'If they all of a sudden sprung this on us here at the end, you probably wouldn't be real happy about it. 'We've known it for a while, and we're excited to play,' Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said. For a league left out of the College Football Playoff twice in the first three years of the system, the timing of its title game return could be less than ideal.
