Newsstand: Tiebreakers announced for Big Ten Football Championship game
The Michigan Wolverines enter the 2024 season as a three-time defending Big Ten Champion, but there is a new twist to the race this year as the conference expands to 18.
With the elimination of divisions, the top two teams in the conference standings will now head to Indianapolis in the first weekend of December to battle for the Big Ten crown. That could obviously create some headaches in determining who goes.
The Big Ten released its tiebreaker scenarios on Monday afternoon ahead of the first week of the 2024 season:
- The tied teams will be compared based on head-to-head matchups during the regular season.
- The tied teams will be compared based on record against all common conference opponents.
- The tied teams will be compared based on record against common opponents with the best conference record and proceeding through the common conference opponents based on their order of finish within the conference standings.
- The tied teams will be compared based on the best cumulative conference winning percentage of all conference opponents.
- The representative will be chosen based on the highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (team Rating Score metric) following the regular season.
- The representative will be chosen by random draw among the tied teams conducted by the Commissioner or designee.
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“It will really be the guy that practices with the most consistency, making the best decisions, taking care of the football and making enough plays,” Moore explained. “Both of them are going to be going against similar looks, because it’s not gonna be our defense now; it’s gonna be their defense. So who’s gonna execute, whether you’re with the one offense or the two offense, because they’re both going to take snaps with both, who’s going to execute with the most consistency.”
– Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore during his Monday night radio show appearance speaking on the quarterbacks
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