Freshly broadened SEC exposes league tiebreakers
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Chris Low, ESPN Elder WriterAug 21, 2024, 07:21 PM ET
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The SEC has actually announced its set of tiebreakers for the 2024 football season with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas and the removal of departments in the freshly expanded 16-team league.In the event of a
tie in between groups competing for an area in the SEC national championship, the following procedures will be used in descending order until the tie is broken: A. Head-to-head competition between the tied teams.B. Tape versus all typical conference opponents amongst the tied teams.C. Tape-record against greatest(finest)placed typical challenger in the conference standings and continuing through the standings among the tied teams.D. Cumulative conference winning portion of all conference opponents among the tied teams.E.
Capped relative scoring margin versus all conference opponents among the connected groups.
Formula will consist of a cap of 42 points scored on offense and 48 points allowed on defense.F. Random draw of the tied teams.If the regular-season standings identify a clear conference champ and two or more teams are tied for
second place, the conference champion will be the home team in the SEC championship game and the tiebreaking procedures will be utilized to determine its opponent.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated If a tiebreaking action produces standings with 2 teams connected for first place in the conference, both will qualify for the
SEC national championship
. To choose the
seeding, both groups will advance through the two-team tiebreaking procedures till the tie is broken, which will determine home/away designation for the SEC championship. The game will be played on Dec. 7 at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta.In 1992, the SEC expanded from 10 to 12 groups with Arkansas and South Carolina signing up with and divided into 2 departments with the Eastern Division winner facing the Western Division winner for the league crown, producing college football’s first FBS championship game game. The SEC continued with the division format to determine its championship game game participants after Missouri and Texas A&M participated in 2012. Present SEC teams have integrated to win 14 of the previous 19 national championships. Only 6 different schools have actually won SEC championships in football (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU and Tennessee )since the start
of the 1977 season.