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Big 12 Conference announces tiebreaking procedures for 2024 college football season

Stephen Samraby:Steve Samra09/06/24

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The Big 12 Conference revealed their tiebreaker procedures to determine the participants for the Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship via a press release.

If two teams are tied in the Big 12 standings (conference games only), the following steps will be taken until a determination is made:

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A) The tied teams will be compared based on their head-to-head record during the season.

B) The tied teams will be compared based on win percentage against all common conference opponents.

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C) The tied teams will be compared based on win percentage against the next highest-placed common opponent in the standings (based on the record in all games played within the Conference) proceeding through the standings.

D) The tied teams will be compared based on combined win percentage in conference games of conference opponents.

E) The tied teams will be compared based on total number of wins in a 12-game season.

F) The representative will be chosen based on highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (team rating score metric) following the last weekend of regular-season games.

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G) The representative will be chosen by a coin toss.

Moving forward, it’ll be fascinating to see which teams will battle for the Big 12 title during the first season of a new era for the conference. In Week 1, the conference had some tremendous performances, with teams like the Kansas State Wildcats and Utah Utes looking like true contenders.

Additionally, the Oklahoma State Cowboys and Arizona Wildcats took care of business, but the one team that could shake up the college football world if they made the title game is Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes.

Time will tell who rises above the rest, but the Big 12 is one of the more unpredictable conferences in America, and that’s never been more true than this season.