where the margin for error is razor thin. You can literally have a losing record in conference play and still go to the dance.
If BYU does what we usually do in non-con and go 10-4 or whatever, then you just have to like 7-9 in conference play and you’re a bubble team.
It won’t be any harder to go dancing in the Big 12 than in the WCC. It will be the same level of difficulty, just in a different way and with more big games.