What could be interesting is if wvu or OU win out and go to CCG only to face a battle-scarred team from a field of 6-3 or 5-4 (conference record, of course) teams that have beat the crap out of each other.
And the lowly underdog dominates the one loss team.
Yeah, that'd be fun. Especially if Texas is the one that can spoil the Sooner's shot at CFP. :-)
Yeah, I can see why that would be fun, from your pov, particularly if it was 1-loss OU who got punked by a battle-scarred Texas team, which would mean that particular brand of lightning having struck twice in one year.
So, that's your fantasy, and here's mine. What I'd like to see is OU and Texas ending up in the CCG, and OU returning the RRS favor with a resounding win with the conf title on the line.
But, you know, that's just too obvious a fantasy, and so here's a more deep and dark and delicious one
A second fantasy scenario could be: OU whips WVU by a lot, and Texas loses to WVU by, say a lot, or at least, a last minute touchdown catch, and the three teams end with identical 1 loss conf records, having beaten each other in turn. In this case, the first two Big 12 tiebreaker rules (round robin records against each other, and then against rest of the conference, both of which would be equal for all three) don't appear to resolve it, and it moves to score differential, the third tiebreaker. At the moment, from my quick look, it appears that OU and WVU have better score differentials than Texas, and that would mean that Texas, despite winning the RRS against OU, would be left out of the CCG.
And, then the fun would begin. The Texas fan base would scream bloody murder, accuse OU of cheating even though the Sooners simply followed the rules, accuse Big 12 officials of OU favoritism despite being involved with (or even demanding) the creation of these revised tiebreaker rules, and then out of frustration UT fans fly blimps with banners over stadiums, and the Texas HC might even end up on national tv, perhaps at the halftime of the Bedlam game, whining about how unfair life is.
It would be 2008 all over again, and karma for the Mack-tivated BCS and Rose Bowl snub of Cal back in 2004, living on, and on, and on ...