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Big 12 tiebreaker scenarios

  • This is coming from the conference office in the event there's a tie for first place in the conference at the end of the season.

    This is NOT the official tiebreaker, but it's the likely outcome in the event of ties.

    1. K-State and OU tie at 8-1. K-State has tiebreaker by virtue of win over OU.

    2. K-State, OU and Texas tie at 7-2. All three would be 1-1 vs each other. Would have to work way down standings starting with the next highest placed team to compare records. Final outcome to determine champion would depend on final standings.

    3. K-State, OSU and Texas tie at 7-2. UT and KSU would be 1-1 in mini-conference, while OSU would be 0-2. OSU would be eliminated and UT would be champ by virtue of head-to-head win over K-State.

    4. K-State, OU, OSU and Texas tie at 7-2. OU and OSU would be 1-2 in the mini-conference of tied teams and dropped from consideration, while K-State and Texas would be 2-1. In this scenario Texas would be champions by virtue of head-to-head victory over KSU.

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  • In almost any scenario, under #2 UT would be the winner too. That is because in order to get there OSU would have to beat OU and they will have a better conference record than Baylor and WVU (KSU and UT secondary losses) - dropping out OU, then UT-KSU, UT goes via head to head.

    KSU wins out, it is champ.
    UT and OU win out, OU is champ.
    UT wins out and OSU beats OU, UT is champ.

    I suppose if OU beats OSU but loses to TCU, things could get really weird.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by Hornoflatulence on 11/19/2012 at 10:30 AM

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  • Hornoflatulence said...

    In almost any scenario, under #2 UT would be the winner too. That is because in order to get there OSU would have to beat OU and they will have a better conference record than Baylor and WVU (KSU and UT secondary losses) - dropping out OU, then UT-KSU, UT goes via head to head.

    KSU wins out, it is champ. UT and OU win out, OU is champ. UT wins out and OSU beats OU, UT is champ.

    I suppose if OU beats OSU but loses to TCU, things could get really weird.

    Any scenario with Texas winning out and ou losing a game equals Texas being the Big 12 champ.

    OSU is assured of 4th place, as they own the tie-breaker over Tech. TCU is out of the discussion because they would have 5 losses if Texas wins on Thursday.

    So even if OSU drops their final 2 games, they are still in 4th place.

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