With the release of the season’s second college football playoff rankings, the pecking order at the top continues to clarify. If No. 1 Clemson wins the Atlantic Coast Conference, No. 2 Alabama the Southeastern Conference and No. 3 Ohio State the Big Ten, and if No. 4 Notre Dame wins the rest of its independent schedule, they are likely to be the four teams in the playoff.
That would leave the Big 12 out. Again.
The top Big 12 team in the ranking, undefeated Baylor, is No. 6. Another undefeated team from the conference, Oklahoma State, is eighth, while one-loss Oklahoma and T.