KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Oklahoma's chances of reaching college football's playoff may have been washed down the Red River last weekend, and there is a good chance the Big 12's championship aspirations went right with them.

The Sooners were the clear front-runners to not only win the league but crash the four-team playoff. Their loss to Texas on a last-second field goal dealt them a crushing defeat. Yes, 13 of the 16 teams to reach the playoff the past four years have had a loss, but Oklahoma suddenly finds itself in a rather unenviable position of having to leapfrog several contenders from oth...