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Here are the Big 12 football tiebreakers for the expanded conference in 2024

Sep 6, 2024, 1:52 PM | Updated: 2:24 pm

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The Big 12 logo on the yardage marker during the game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Maryland Terrapins at Mountaineer Field on September 26, 2015 in Morgantown, West Virginia. (Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images)

(Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images)

The Big 12 announced its tiebreaking policies for the conference’s 2024 regular season on Friday.

Tiebreakers will come into effect to determine which teams reach the Big 12 Championship game if teams finish with the same conference record through nine games.

The league also reaffirmed that previously scheduled nonconference games between two Big 12 schools will not count toward the conference record. That means Utah and Baylor, who play Saturday, as well as next week’s Kansas State-Arizona matchups, will not impact the league standings.

Big 12 football tiebreakers

If two teams are tied by conference record, here is the order of operations to break ties in the conference’s football regular season.

A – The tied teams will be compared based on their head-to-head record during the season.

B – The tied teams will be compared based on win percentage against all common conference opponents.

C – The tied teams will be compared based on win percentage against the next highest-placed common opponent in the standings (based on the record in all games played within the Conference) proceeding through the standings.

D – The tied teams will be compared based on combined win percentage in conference games of conference opponents.

E – The tied teams will be compared based on total number of wins in a 12-game season.

F – The representative will be chosen based on highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (team rating score metric) following the last weekend of regular-season games.

G – The representative will be chosen by a coin toss.

For the Conference’s complete tiebreaker procedures, including a tie of three or more teams, please click here.

Here is the preseason media poll for the Big 12 football season.

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