Welcome to Andy Staples on three. Happy Monday.

We got to talk some ceilings and floors.

We've done three of the four power conferences, but I've saved this one for last because

I think it could be the most interesting.

And in this little exercise where we pick what we think is the ceiling for a team, the best it

can be, and the floor for a team, the worst it can possibly be, this is the hardest one to do.

This is the one where the spreads are going to be the biggest because the competition in this league is so even.

Of course, I am talking about the new Big 12 last year.

They welcomed BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF.

This year they say goodbye to Texas and Oklahoma, but welcome Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, and Colorado.

That's right. Coach Prime is in this league.

And everybody thinks they can win it because guess what?

Everybody probably can win it.

This is going to be the most evenly matched league in the country.

There's only a few teams that we're just counting out from the outset.

And to be perfectly honest, maybe we shouldn't be counting anybody out.

Because this is a league that will be very hotly contested probably until the last week of the season as the teams try to get into the championship game.

There will be teams probably, I would say, six, seven deep as October moves to November that have a real chance of winning the conference title,

which means a real chance of making the college football playoff, which means probably a real chance at having a top four seed in the college

football playoff.

The other question, and I'll pose that to our guest as we start, is whether another team

or teams will wind up in the college football playoff.

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