as to what on earth the playoff committee is supposed to do with a team that loses in the title game.

And you can easily end up with situations like ours where the best team in the conference is not even allowed into the title game and then has no shot at the playoff.

If we had done this correctly, the playoff committee would be taking BYU as the #1 Big12 team, and if there is room you'd have ASU and ISU as the next possible selections.