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When Ohio State kept TCU and the Big 12 out of the playoff

On the final weekend of the 2014 season, the inaugural year of the College Football Playoff, the 12 rookie members of the selection committee met at the Gaylord Texan resort near Dallas to watch the conference championship games together -- and to determine the first four teams in the history of the CFP.

It was an unforgettable, controversial decision that to this day baffles the Big 12.

"We had three teams," former selection committee member Steve Wieberg said in a February interview with ESPN. "We had TCU, Baylor and Ohio State. It was like the stakes are really real.