Multiple Teams
If three or more teams are tied atop a division at the end of the season, the following criteria are used, until one team remains and declared the representative of the Football Championship Game.

The team with the highest winning percentage in games played among the tied teams shall be declared the Division Champion;
1) If still tied, highest winning percentage of tied teams within the division;
2) If still tied, head-to-head competition against the team within the division with the next best overall Conference winning percentage (4 and 5) breaking ties using the Conference tiebreaking procedures proceeding through the division until one team prevails;
3) If still tied, combined highest winning percentage against all common non-divisional Conference opponents;
4) If still tied, if one team was ranked in the latest available CFP Selection Committee rankings and wins in the final weekend of the Conference regular season, it will be declared the Division Champion. If in that same scenario, the team that was the highest ranked team in the latest available CFP Selection Committee rankings loses in the final weekend of the Conference regular season, a composite average of selected computer rankings (Anderson & Hester, Billingsley, Colley and Wolfe) will be used to determine the Division Champion;
5) If there are multiple teams ranked in the latest available CFP Selection Committee rankings, the highest-ranked team that wins in the final weekend of the Conference regular season will be declared the Division Champion;
6) If none of the ranked teams win on the final weekend of the Conference regular season, a composite average of selected computer rankings (Anderson & Hester, Billingsley, Colley and Wolfe) that include all games on the final weekend of the Conference regular season, will be used to determine the Division Champion;
7) If no teams are ranked in the latest available CFP Selection Committee rankings going into the final weekend of the Conference regular season, a composite average of selected; computer rankings (Anderson & Hester, Billingsley, Colley and Wolfe) that include all games on the final weekend of the Conference regular season, will be used to determine the Division Champion;
8) If still tied, the team with the highest overall (Conference and non-Conference winning percentage against FBS teams shall be the Division Champion;
9) If still tied, the Division Champion will be determined by lot, conducted by the Commissioner.

bird9954 wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:07 pm

Need Southern needs to lose twice (don't see Troy even beating them). Tiebreaker won't get to computer ranking otherwise. First tiebreak is overall win percentage. Southern takes it assuming:
GAS 10-2 (0.833)
App 9-2 (0.818)
Troy 9-3 (0.750)

Not having the Southern Miss game win could be the decider if Troy would happen to beat Southern and we beat Troy.......

Yosef84 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:31 am

Rick, that's my thinking as well. The conference wouldn't want to penalize a program for making a safety driven decision (counter to public policy) and especially given that we attempted to make accommodation but were denied by USM.

Rick83 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:34 am

Yosef84 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:31 am

Rick, that's my thinking as well. The conference wouldn't want to penalize a program for making a safety driven decision (counter to public policy) and especially given that we attempted to make accommodation but were denied by USM.

If they don't make an exception for that they're basically enticing teams to take the risk and play the games in those dangerous situations. A bad precedent to set. They should make that exception and then modify the tie breaker rules going forward to account for those situations.