College Football 2017: 3 overreactions from Week 2 action

In the three year history of the College Football Playoff, there has never been a conference that has sent two teams to the final four field.

This is the year that it will happen. It won’t be the SEC or the ACC, the conferences with the most playoff wins, though. And it won’t be the Big Ten, the conference with the inaugural College Football Playoff title.

It will be the conference with no Playoff wins: the Big 12. This does not mean the Big 12 is best conference because it definitely is not. It only means that it’s the only conference that doesn’t have divisions.

Divisions can get in the way of getting two teams in the playoff.

Let’s take LSU-Alabama for example. LSU and Alabama are usually the best teams in the SEC, but only one can go to Atlanta for the SEC Championship. If there were no divisions and both games they play against each other are very close, there is a higher possible of getting them both into the playoff.

This year, the Big 12 has two great top-10 teams: Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. If an undefeated Oklahoma beats an undefeated Oklahoma State in a close game on Nov. 4 and a one-loss Oklahoma State barely escapes the  Big 12 Championship with a win, there’s a possibility they both get in.

I think this will play out because the Pac-12 and the Big Ten champion has a good chance of having two losses. It could easily be a final four that features an ACC champion, SEC champion, a Big 12 champion and a Big 12 runner-up, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 champion watching from the couch.