I lost track, can we win a 3 way tie?

[LTblows]

Or do we need the black bears to continue rolling until the Egg Bowl?

 

[00Dawg]

Depends on how other teams finish.

A 3-way tie at 6-2 with Bama, LSU, and us comes down to who beat the 4th place West team.
If that's UM, and they beat LSU, we go.

 

[archdog]

I thought it would come down to our east conference records. If we lose to LSU, Lsu to bama, Bama to us.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Three-Team Tie (or more): If three teams (or more) are tied for a division title, the following procedure will be used in the following order: (Note: If one of the procedures results in one team being eliminated and two remaining, the two-team tiebreaker procedure as stated in No. 1 above will be used):

A. Combined head to head record among the tied teams;

B. Record of the tied teams within the division;

C. Head to head competition against the team within the division with the best overall Conference record (divisional and non divisional) and proceeding through the division (multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last and a tie for first place will be broken before a tie for fourth place);

D. Overall Conference record against non divisional teams;

E. Combined record against all common non divisional teams;

F. Record against the common non divisional team with the best overall Conference record (divisional and non divisional) and proceeding through other common non divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division; and

G. Best cumulative Conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents (Note: If two teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, then the two-team tiebreaker procedures apply. If four teams are tied, and three teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, the three-team tiebreaker procedures will be used beginning with 2.A.);


H. Coin flip of the tied teams with the team with the odd result being the representative (Example: If there are two teams with tails and one team with heads, the team with heads is the representative).

 

[Go Budaw]

Not likely for us to win a 3-way tie. First off, it would need to be against Alabama and either LSU or A&M (most likely LSU, obviously). That would come down to the record of the East opponents, of which ours are far inferior to both Bama and LSU. Mizzou and UK are probably going to finish with a much worse combined record than UT / Georgia (Bama opponents) or UF / USC (LSU opponents). They would have to have the best combined record of all 3 sets of teams for us to win the tiebreaker.

Now, the possibility exists of LSU losing out, us winning out, and us getting in a 3-way tie with Bama and Ole Miss (or even a 4 way tie with A&M thrown in there), in which case we would win both of those tie breakers. However, that possibility I think is so remote that its not even worth discussing.

For me, I'm rooting against Ole Miss until we actually beat Mizzou and Alabama and Alabama beats LSU. If those 3 things all happen, I'll put on my Bear hat for a week and pull for them against LSU and then embrace the chaos of the Egg Bowl deciding the West. But until that time, GTHOM.

 

[LawDawg97]

If UM beats LSU they'll be 6-2 at worst.

A 3-way tie at 6-2 with Bama, LSU, and us comes down to who beat the 4th place West team.
If that's UM, and they beat LSU, we go.

I can't see Arky beating them at home. So could be a 4-way tie. In that case, would that be Bama out bc they lost to us and UM. LSU out because they lost to Bama and UM. And UM out because they lost to us head to head and we beat them and Bama?

 

[Shooter McGavin.sixpack]

As stated previously, we win a 3 way tie between us, bama, and lsu if the 4th place team is UM and they defeat LSU. East records don't come into play in this scenario unless LSU beats UM but loses to Arkansas or A&M.

 

[Shooter McGavin.sixpack]

Yes that is correct.