A pretty good Saturday just got a lot better for the Arizona State football team.

Just over three hours after finishing No. 16 Kansas State 24-14, the Sun Devils saw No. 6 BYU fall to Kansas 17-13.

The loss dropped BYU to 6-1 in the Big 12, just one game ahead of Arizona State (5-2) with two games to play.

And the Cougars travel to Tempe, Arizona next Saturday to play the Sun Devils.

Updated Big 12 standings

It’s essentially a four-team race between BYU, Colorado, Arizona State and Iowa State for the two spots in the Big 12 football championship game. After another Saturday of wild upsets, here’s a look at the top of the leaderboard:

Every game is an elimination game for Arizona State, and they have been like that for weeks. But now the Sun Devils don’t need any help. If they win their last two games, they’ll end up tied for second in the Big 12 at worst. Then the crazy tiebreaker scenarios begin.

Big 12 tiebreaker scenarios

If the Sun Devils can beat BYU next week — and win over Colorado and Iowa State — it would move into a tie for second place behind Colorado. And if all four teams win their finals, and the season ends with a tie for second place… well, good luck with the tiebreaker rules:

In the event of a tie between more than two teams, the following procedures will be followed. After one team has an advantage and is “placed,” all remaining teams in the multi-team tiebreaker will repeat the tiebreak procedure. If at any time the tie between multiple teams is reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreaker procedure will be applied.

A. The records of the three (or more) tied teams are compared based on the winning percentage in matches between the tied teams:

Arizona State, Iowa State and BYU will not all play each other this season, so we move on to the next step in the tiebreaker:

In this scenario, Arizona State would win the tiebreaker. The Sun Devils would finish 4-0 against regular Big 12 opponents, while both BYU and Iowa State would finish 3-1. That would put the Sun Devils in the Big 12 championship game against Colorado – with the winner claiming the Big 12 title and an automatic berth in the College Football Playoff.

With two weeks to go, Arizona State suddenly has its own destiny in its hands.

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