We now have the “clarification” of the Big 12’s tie-breaker rules to determine which teams head to the conference football championship game in two weeks after a new sentence was added to the info and was noted in an email to select media late yesterday afternoon.
That new sentence reads “If all the tied teams are not common opponents, the tied team that defeated each of the other tied teams earns the Championship berth.”
The previous structure left out an opportunity for a round-robin to make the decision.
The move eliminates the edge K-State held going into the final two weeks of the regular season, instead shifting the edge to Oklahoma State, who owns two wins against the teams they are tied with: the Cats and Oklahoma. K-State and the Sooners aren’t playing this season, which adds a wrinkle to the process.
So, what it means for the Cats is that they have to win out and need both OU and Oklahoma State to lose at least once to be able make the repeat trip to Arlington for the title game in two weeks.
