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Media weren’t the only ones on deadline Saturday night.
The Big 12 stepped up, big time. The college football world needed to know what was going on with the conference’s tiebreakers. The office worked overtime in getting them out.
That beat the heck out of the Big Ten which took until last Tuesday to determine its best team, Oregon, had clinched a spot in the conference championship game.
The 16-team Big 12 has fallen into a four-way tie at the top between Arizona State, Colorado, BYU and Iowa State. If you have a problem with everybody in the league having at least two losses, you might want to first have a word with the SEC.
But heading into the final week of the regular season, the Big 12 has the craziest road.
Those four teams are all tied at 6-2. The simplest way to put this is that the two teams who end up with two losses (at 7-2) are in the Big 12 Championship Game.From there it gets complicated. In a four-way tie where all the top four teams win, most likely Arizona State plays Iowa State. That is a tiebreaker broken by common opponents. The odds reflect this. According to FanDuel, Arizona State is the favorite to win the Big 12 at +135, followed by Iowa State +260, BYU +320 and Colorado +650.
However, the Big 12 office said, “there are scenarios” where Arizona State and Iowa State can win and not make the championship game. That would involve common opponents of other teams.
We’ll highlight one three-way tie because of the rabbit holes are too deep to go through all the possibilities.
In a way three-way tie featuring Colorado, Iowa State and Arizona State, a Texas Tech win against West Virginia puts Colorado win. In that scenario it would be Colorado against either Iowa State or Arizona State. Again, common…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2024-11-25 00:36:00
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