Big Ten Championship Game Tiebreakers
They did announce it, but since there still seems to be a lot of questions on it, it's as follows:
-Conference Record (Good for The Game having meaning in winning your division)
-Head-to-Head Results
In case of Multiple team tie:
-Collective head-to-head record among tied teams (I would think the old "if one team beat the other two, they go; or if two beat the 3rd, eliminate that one, and go back to previous tie-breaker)
-Division Record (probably after true round robin)
-BCS Component (which is like the first tie-breaker after head to head in the Big 12, isn't it?)
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:53 AM ^
Ya all of that sounds right to me.
Personally, I like it and will just pray that the BCS component never comes into play because I dislike the BCS.
I guess that if it gets that far however, it is the best option because it at least takes SOS into account right?
We could just have all the ADs vote. That worked once before right? /sarcasm
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:57 AM ^
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:17 AM ^
and it has been put in the form of a "tiebreaker," but what I want to know is how is the division winner determined, is it in division record or conference record? Just divisional games counting toward divisional champion with the overall conference as the tie-breaker if two teams have the same divisional record, or all conference games determining the winner of each division? If someone could articulate it for me it would answer this question I have, which has been bugging me. Thanks
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:18 AM ^
That's a ranked order in the original post, so division record is not particularly important.
1. Conference records
2. Head to head records
3. (if 3 teams tied) Record against teams tied for first.
4. Division record.
5. BCS standings (this, btw, sucks. I would far prefer scoring margin in Big 10 games, at least it's concrete).
If you think about it, it has to be overall conference record, otherwise you don't have a single conference, you have two small conferences with a playoff agreement and some non-conference games.
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:43 AM ^
Will the conference record or divisional record determine who goes to the BTC Game?
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:10 AM ^
Conference record
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:21 AM ^
The Texas-OU-Tech thing was kind of a perfect storm. The teams had no losses other than against each other, an no team had beat the other two. If you get into that situation, you're always going to get into some kind of marginal tiebreaker.
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
The BCS tiebreaker basically means whoever lost first gets to go, which I think is BS.
I'd like to see something like, "If one or more of the teams has played the other division champion while one has not, remove those teams."
That would basically mean Michigan and Nebraska already played OSU and they are tied with Iowa, so let's see an Iowa-OSU matchup so that we don't get a repeat game if we can help it.