Big 12 Division Champ Tiebreaker Rules

BaytownHusker said:
JTrain said:
Malth said:
if OU is 9, TAM is 14, and OSU is 15, then OU is going to the CCG.

TAM needs to be ranked within one spot of OU, not OSU

Barring something strange happening in the polls, OU is going to the CCG
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According the exact wording of the rules, TAMU should go in that case. It's just very poorly worded. Yes, the intent, as the OP stated, is clearly to only apply this if the top two are within one spot, but they didn't actually state that in the rule.

If it turns out like this (I doubt it will anyway... OSU should still be comfortably ahead of TAMU), and TAMU got lawyers involved (which I doubt they would be big enough dicks to do) it could get messy.

I think the OP was basically just pointing out that whoever wrote the rule wasn't paying enough attention.
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How do you figure??? Ou is the highest ranked team in the poll that you are predicting, not OSU..
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Pretty thoroughly explained by the OP.

"5. The highest ranked team in the first Bowl Championship Series poll following the completion of Big 12 regular season conference play shall be the representative in the Big 12 Championship Game, unless two of the tied teams are ranked within one spot of the other in the BCS poll. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the Big 12 Championship Game. "

It doesn't specify that the two teams ranked within one spot must be the top two of the three. That's why this thread exists. So if TAMU was 14 and OSU 15 (obviously won't happen at this point) that would satisfy the IF clause, meaning it goes to the top two ranked tied teams (which would be OU and TAMU) and the winner of that head-to-head (TAMU) would be the representative.

 
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