ESPN reporter shares shocking message on BYU, Colorado's College Football Playoff chances

ESPN's Heather Dinich believes the Big 12 could potentially have two representatives in the College Football Playoff: Kalani Sitake's BYU Cougars and Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes. Dinich relayed CU's necessity to win the conference but claimed the Cougars could make the CFP even with a conference championship loss.

“Very realistic because the five highest-ranked conference champs are in the playoffs,” Dinich said on SportsCenter (h/t On3). “If Colorado runs the table, which ESPN analytics projects they will because it gives the Buffaloes at least a 50% chance to win each of their remaining games, then they’re gonna play BYU in the Big 12 Championship game.

“I don’t care if they have two losses or four losses. If they win the league, they are in the College Football Playoff. Where it could get interesting is if BYU is in that game undefeated and has one loss as the Big 12 runner up. Does the Big 12 get two teams in? It’s a good possibility but it also depends on what happens everywhere else.”

Deion Sanders wants to win the College Football Playoff for Colorado superfan Peggy Coppom

Coach Prime made it clear that the goalposts have changed in Boulder -- no longer is just any bowl game acceptable for Peggy Coppom. The Buffs need to get to the College Football Playoff Championship Game to satisfy CU's soon-to-be-100-year-old superfan.

“I was really dedicated to get Peggy to a bowl game,” Sanders said November 12 at his weekly news conference in Boulder (h/t USA Today). “Now we trying to get Peggy to the game. Yeah, it was a bowl game. Now it’s the game.”

The path to giving Peggy all of that is to win four more games. Then pull off a few upsets in the CFP.

It's quite the promise, but Coach Prime doesn't back down from his own ambitions.