October 24, 2026 - 9:24 pm

Editor’s note: Each Sunday the Las Vegas Review-Journal will select the four teams most likely to be in the CFP semifinals ahead of the title game in Las Vegas on Jan. 25.

BYU did not enter our rankings last week despite beating our previous top team Notre Dame in a dramatic and controversial game late in the evening.

Saturday revealed the reason the Cougars had been excluded.

BYU still had a difficult schedule ahead and, quite frankly, hadn’t been that impressive anyway.

The Cougars fell at UCF in another wild game and fell even further out of these rankings.

A fellow Big 12 team’s stay in the top four was very short-lived. Texas Tech made it for the first time all season only to fall behind 24-6 at Cincinnati en route to a 37-24 loss.

It was a brutal day for the Big 12 as the conference went from three undefeated teams to just one. The last team standing is Utah, which is in our poll for now.…