While TCU is playing for bowl eligibility today, the Pokes are looking to climb to the top of the potential glut of six-win teams in the Big 12.
Here’s why the Texas Bowl is a likely destination: If OSU defeats TCU on Saturday, the Cowboys could be the fifth-most attractive Big 12 team to a bowl game. Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and Iowa State will likely be selected before the Cowboys, while, at seven wins, OSU might be a more valuable team than the winner of the Texas Tech-Baylor game.
If the Big 12 gets two teams into either a College Football Playoff spot or the New Year’s Six bowl games, the third-place team would end up in the Alamo Bowl.