Understandably, the college football playoff selection committee didn’t have the guts to omit undefeated Florida State from its four-team playoff and because of that, no Big 12 team will have a shot at the national title.

TCU dropped from third to sixth after a 55-3 victory against Iowa State. Baylor moved from sixth to fifth, after defeating Kansas State.

“They were really 3 a,b,c and d,” selection committee chairman Jeff Long told ESPN. “They were really that close.”

It was not difficult to predict correctly in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep the order the committee would seed the teams: 1. Alabama, 2. Oregon, 3. Florida State, 4. Ohio State.

But that’s not how I would have voted. I would have had Baylor in there instead of Florida State.

Some will call for the Big 12 to apply for an exception that would allow a 10-team conference to have a playoff game or for the conference to expand to 12 teams. Instead, encouraging conference members to beef up their non-conference schedules is the way to go.