digging into the tiebreakers and deciding that our win over KSU is indeed the ultimate tiebreaker win

There are only 3 Possible Situations with BYU being 11-1 and being in a tie for second place


1) 12-0 ISU, 10-2 Colorado, KSU can be anything from 10-2 to 4-5 it doesn't matter

We are in because we win all tiebreakers over Colorado in a two team tiebreaker where Kansas State is not in the CCG due to our win over KSU or our common opponent records


2) 11-1 ISU, 11-1 KSU, 10-2 Colorado

KSU wins the first round of tiebreakers and gets in, the tiebreaker is reset with just BYU Colorado and ISU

step a is irrelevant as we didn't all play each other

step b, records against all common conference opponents, BYU then is in 100% if it loses to either ASU or Houston because the three of us all only played KSU, Baylor, UCF, Utah, Kansas
we would be 5-0 they would both be 4-1, we are in

If we lose to Utah or Kansas we are all 4-1 and move to step c of the tiebreaker

step c is the "up for interpretation rule", does it use the 3 teams records against KSU or not? we are 1-0 the others are 0-1, we are in, it seems crazy for them to have meant they would compare our records against anyone else but KSU in this situation since we all played KSU, if they did we would all have beaten Baylor and moved to step d where BYU loses out due to having the weakest conference schedule, but the more i read the more im convinced it will come down to our win over KSU not another team

3) KSU 11-1, Colorado 10-2, ISU 10-2 or worse

Kansas State gets in, two team tiebreaker with Colorado, we win (see step c of situation 2) theres no way our win over kansas state and their loss is ignored to compare our records against some other 13th ranked team that we both played

Part of what makes me think this is the correct interpretation as well is that the ESPN playoff predictor doesn't even let you select that BYU misses the CCG with only 1 loss, whereas it allows you to select that Iowa State can miss the CCG with 1 loss. I would not be surprised to learn that the Big12 helped the developers of the official espn site to code their tiebreaker rules correctly and trust that over the one random fans interpretation on his site