The FOX meltdown from the CFP selection

Snuffy Smith

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Curious, how is a 3 way tie determined, who would have gone to the SECCG?
http://www.secsports.com/article/11145479/sec-divisional-tie-breaker


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 TEAMSNON-DIVISIONAL OPPONENTS CUMULATIVE RECORD
Western 1Eastern Opponents: 14-2
Western 2Eastern Opponents: 12-4
Western 3Eastern 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).

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CoastGhost

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It's not a claim. It was a tie. Alabama is in fact co-champs of the division.

"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;"

"All teams involved in the tie breaker are considered Co-Divisional Champions, and the winner of the tie-breaker is the division's representative to the championship game"

I could find the official source for the tie breaker rule, but not the one for the second quote. However, it is officially considered a tie, that much is clear. That's one of my arguments all along really, that it's so stupid to let tie breakers be a determining factor in who gets into a playoff. That's now how that should ever work, choose based on merit, not a tie breaker!
I remember giving the barn fans hell about getting west co-champion rings one year
 

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