Big Ten announces football tiebreaking process for championship game….
The Big Ten announced new football tiebreaking procedures for the 2024 title game, which will be the first in conference history to match the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the overall conference standings, on Monday.
The conference is heading into its first season without divisions, meaning that the days of the winners of the Big Ten East and West divisions meeting in the championship game are over.
That said, many teams could be tied for the top two spots at the season’s end — and have never played each other — with the current 18-team field.
The list of tiebreaking criteria in order, according to the Big Ten, is:
- Head-to-head results during the regular season
- Record against all common conference opponents
- Record against mutual conference opponents with best record
- Best Big Ten winning percentage of conference opponents
- Highest ranking by SportSource Analytics after the regular season
- Random draw of tied teams
The 2024 Big Ten Championship Game is set to take place on Saturday, December 7 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and the winner will represent the conference as the Automatic Qualifier (AQ) to the College Football Playoff.
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And with those additions, comes new horizons and looks within the conference — on top of the increase in the conference’s odds of having one of its 18 teams winning the national championship for the second straight season
On Monday, the Big Ten announced the tiebreakers that would be considered to determine the two teams that will play for the Big Ten championship in December in Indianapolis.
In a year where the College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams for the first time in its history, the tiebreakers to determine the Big Ten championship game also mean something for the CFP as the champion of the Big Ten earns one of the four first-round byes in the playoff.
