🏈 Rules for winning SEC West

[Bama Guy]

Does the Ole Mill loss to Florida (East division) count against them for the SEC West crown?

 

[planomateo]

Short answer, it doesn't matter. It's all based on divisional record.

For more details, SEC Divisional Tie-Breaker

 

[Bama Guy]

So if we beat LSU.... and LSU beats Ole Miss...... and we then win out, we go the SEC championship game?

 

[jlabit]

I'm not the expert on this but I strongly believe it counts against them. The loss to Florida is still an SEC loss. However , if Bama and Ole Miss both win out, they win SEC West because they beat us, a head to head tiebreaker. We need them to lose one more SEC game. If we win out and they lose one more, that leaves LSU & Bama tied with one loss. We win the division because we won the head to head with LSU.

 

[planomateo]

So if we beat LSU.... and LSU beats Ole Miss...... and we then win out, we go the SEC championship game?

I would say yes, Ole Miss is ranked #19. No way they are getting ahead of us if we win out and they lose to LSU.

 

[Bama Guy]

I hope everyone is right. Otherwise I will have to be pulling for Auburn this weekend and I just don't think I can do it.

Somehow I was thinking a West team could lose to an East team during the regular season and it would not hurt you in determining the West champ.

 

[planomateo]

It's pretty clear in the link I posted above. See below (see A and B in the Two-Team Tie section).

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In the event of a tie for the division championship, the following procedures will be used to break all ties to determine the SEC Football Championship Game representative. All Conference versus Conference Games (both division and non-division) will be counted in the Conference Standings.

1. Two-Team Tie: In the event two teams are tied for a division title, the following procedure will be used in the following order:

A. Head-to-head competition between the two tied teams;

B. Records of the tied teams within the division;

C. Head-to-head competition against the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record, 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 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 or non-divisional) and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division;

G. Best cumulative Conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents; and

Example (Western 1 would be the representative)


TIED TEAMS NON-DIVISIONAL OPPONENTS CUMULATIVE RECORD
Western 1 Eastern Opponents: 14-2
Western 2 Eastern Opponents: 12-4
H. Coin flip of the tied teams.


2. 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.);

Example (Western 1 would be the representative)


TIED TEAMS NON-DIVISIONAL OPPONENTS CUMULATIVE RECORD
Western 1 Eastern Opponents: 14-2
Western 2 Eastern Opponents: 12-4
Western 3 Eastern Opponents: 8-8
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).​

 

[rick4bama]

Right now LSU no lost Bama with one ans Ole siss with one. Ole Siss right now hold the head to head with Bama. But, if Old siss lost again that help us . Then next Saturday Bama TCB! Right?

 

[mrchase]

So if we beat LSU.... and LSU beats Ole Miss...... and we then win out, we go the SEC championship game?

If Auburn pulls off the upset Saturday and we win out we go......

WE NEED TO WIN OUT....... and we need some help from Auburn, Arkansas, LSU, or Miss State.

 

[jdpas29]

Out of those lsu and arky have the best shot.. but auburn is regaining some of their lucky magic.. maybe just enough to pull off the boner.

 

[OldPlayer]

Auburn is doing a stripe out vs Ole Miss so they're sure to win.
Auburn Football Stripe The Stadium vs Ole Miss

 

[Crimson Legend]

Auburn is doing a stripe out vs Ole Miss so they're sure to win.
Auburn Football Stripe The Stadium vs Ole Miss

What color are the empty seats going to be?

 

[PhillyGirl]

 

[BamaFan334]

So if we beat LSU.... and LSU beats Ole Miss...... and we then win out, we go the SEC championship game?

Yes, we would hold the tie breaker over LSU and Ole Miss would have two conference losses to our one (assuring us a higher ranking), so we would go, under your scenario.

 

[252BAMA]

I would say yes, Ole Miss is ranked #19. No way they are getting ahead of us if we win out and they lose to LSU.

The only ranking that matters is how the CFP committee ranks the CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS. If you ain't one of them, or ND, it won't matter if you are ranked #1 in the polls.

 

[252BAMA]

I hope everyone is right. Otherwise I will have to be pulling for Auburn this weekend and I just don't think I can do it.

Somehow I was thinking a West team could lose to an East team during the regular season and it would not hurt you in determining the West champ.

SOS lobbied hard for that in 2011 when he went undefeated in the East and didn't go to Atlanta because he lost to the barn and Arkansas. Loss to LSU kept him out of the 2012 game because he held the HTH tie-breaker over UGA, beating them 35-7!

Actually the final tie-breaker is: G. Best cumulative Conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents;

Meaning, it is not only important what you do against them, it is important what THEY do against all other conference opponents.