Big 12 College Football Playoff picture thrown into chaos: BYU, Texas Tech upset losses alter landscape

UCF's stunning upset of second-ranked BYU in double overtime coming after Cincinnati's impressive win over previously-unbeaten and eighth-ranked Texas Tech has tossed the conference's College Football Playoff hopes in a blender exiting Week 8.

The Bearcats snapped the Red Raiders' nine-game Big 12 winning streak dating back to last season hours before Scott Frost and the Knights held off the Cougars, a week after BYU had beaten Notre Dame to move up to No. 2 in the AP poll.

With five top-25 teams entering Week 8, the attention now turns to the primetime battle between 14th-ranked Houston and No. 10 Utah, with the winner getting a leg up on the rest alongside second-ranked BYU at the top of the conference.

Behind four touchdown passes from JC French and a career-best 173 yards rushing from Cole Tabb, the Bearcats snapped a two-game skid with a signature win and took advantage of Texas Tech's season-long sputters in the passing game.

Struggles offensively finally came back to haunt the Red Raiders, who turned it over three times and never recovered from Cincinnati's 21-point surge in the second quarter.

The ranked win was only Scott Satterfield's second at Cincinnati in four seasons.

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