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• #BIG 12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL TIEBREAKERS SERIES#

If two teams are tied, the winner of the game between the two tied teams shall be the champion.ī.

For the avoidance of doubt, only Conference records will be used throughout the process:Ī. The tiebreaker will also be used to break other ties as necessary.

The following procedure will determine the Conference Champion. (To be used to determine the Conference champion and, if needed, the Conference's Sugar Bowl representative in the event the champion is selected for a CFP semifinal) Here's a look at the exact tiebreaker text presented by the Big 12 on Wednesday: We were an easy target, I’ll grant you that.” “It’s apropos now, isn’t it? Actually, it was last year because as you’ve heard me say, I really think it was about how we conducted the season, not the fact we couldn’t get to one. “I think it will probably be around,” Bowlsby said. However, Bowlsby added that the coaches "also acknowledge the reality that absent a championship game, we don’t want to be different in two ways that we can’t get to one champion and we also don’t have a playoff game.”Īs for the Big 12’s 'One True Champion' slogan, it appears to be staying. Coaches’ contracts often include clauses that provide extra money for winning a conference championship, even if a team shares the title.īowlsby quipped that “you could see the computations taking place” in Big 12 coaches’ minds about lost bonus money. The end of co-champions could impact bonuses for some Big 12 coaches. We were concerned does it favor a defensive or an offensive team?” … It gave us some comfort that a 21-7 win is more valuable than a 48-41 win. “But I just think when you get down to that level, there aren’t a lot of real good ways to break the tie and this is probably as good as any. “There’s probably a little bit of apprehension about scoring differential because theoretically it could contribute to running up the score,” Bowlsby said. Bowlsby said the Big 12 considered other options, such as nonconference strength of schedule and victories over the highest-ranked team as selected by the committee. In a three-way tie, the third tiebreaker scenario is scoring differential. The tiebreaker will not only settle ties for the conference champion but could help break ties for the Big 12’s Sugar Bowl representative during years when the Sugar Bowl is not a semifinal game and the Big 12 has a CFP participant. The Big 12 will no longer recognize multiple conference champions. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee never said the lack of having one champion kept both Big 12 teams out of the inaugural playoff.īaylor coach Art Briles and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby had a heated conversation about co-champions on the championship podium last year, with Bowlsby taking the position that he couldn't change the rules during the season.

#BIG 12 CONFERENCE FOOTBALL TIEBREAKERS SERIES#

A three-way tiebreaker would result in a series of steps that could include scoring differential.īaylor and TCU finished as co-champions in 2014 despite Baylor winning head-to-head. Head-to-head will be the obvious deciding factor if two teams finish tied. No, really.Īs expected, the Big 12 ended its spring meetings Wednesday at the Arizona Biltmore by finalizing a tiebreaker to eliminate co-champions. PHOENIX - The Big 12 will have One True Champion next year. Baylor and TCU split the Big 12 title in 2014.