texas already proving the former big 12 is now an autocracy.

[sd'sker]

i hope they have to use this alteration and the former rule would have met texas would represent the big 12, but the new rule would allow for ttu to represent the big 12. and watch them change the rule a year after only to bite them in the arse again.

 

Big 12 confirms change to tiebreaker rules

by David Ubben

 

Though Texas fans didn't get what it wanted in 2008's "45-35" campaign, flying planes over the Big 12 title pregame and setting up websites in hopes of getting the Longhorns into the national championship game over Oklahoma, the outcome of that season has had an impact on future rules.

 

Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News reported on Thursday that the league has agreed to change the tiebreaker rules, if only slightly, to rely more on head-to-head matchups.

 

Carlton reports:

Here's the old version, with the fifth three-way tiebreaker: "5. The highest ranked team in the first Bowl Championship Series standings following the completion of Big 12 regular season conference play shall be the representative."

 

And the new version: "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."

 

Conspiracy theorists will point to this as another case of Texas getting its way, but it's not like anybody has plans to go wrangle up Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy and replay the 2008 national title game. The new rule makes a lot of sense, and emphasizes performances on the field more than those on a hard drive.

 

Anything that does that is good in my book. No complaints here.

 

I was OK with the rule as it was, since the opportunity to climb over another team in the BCS rankings to the point where it decides a title game berth of BCS bowl game berth is rare, but the new way it's set up is clearly better.

 

Well done.

 

""I think the feeling is if they're within a place of each other [in the BCS], it's not going to affect that access," Beebe told the Morning News. "We looked at other possibilities that were within five places and thought that was too big a risk."

 

The rule was actually implemented in in June, but was never officially announced because realignment issues overshadowed everything else during the summer.

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[Enhance]

*Sigh*...

 

These tiebreaker rules are complicated enough to begin with.

[ESPY]

Even though it's extremely rare when this kind of thing happens, don't you just get the feeling it's gonna happen again either this year or next to Texas' advantage? Gut instinct in me says "HELL YES!"

[74Hunter]

Will this even matter after this year, since the Big 12 will not have a championship game?

 

Or will these rules transfer over to determine the actual conference champion next year?

[Caven]

Won't the new rules simply state Texas is the Big 12 conference champion so long as they are ranked with 20 spot of the Big 12 team with the best record?

[74Hunter]

Just hang an asterisk next to it if they are not awarded the championship.

 

I think that ut has won like 14 straight Big 12 championships.

[DJR313]

Why not just have the bylaws say, "whatever way ensures that Texas will make it to the title game is what we are going to go with, right Texas?"

[GoingCoastal]

WTF? They won't need this next year because there won't be a conference championship game. Unless this is a sign the Big 12 is going to grab 2 teams?

[knapplc]

When exactly did Oklahoma lose it's manhood? What happened to that athletic program that they just bow down to whatever Texas wants?

 

I used to look at Oklahoma as a respectable sports institution, but anymore I can't see them as anything other than Texas' pet.

[BurntOrangeGuy]

When exactly did Oklahoma lose it's manhood? What happened to that athletic program that they just bow down to whatever Texas wants?

 

I used to look at Oklahoma as a respectable sports institution, but anymore I can't see them as anything other than Texas' pet.

The regrettable fact is, they've won more Big XII football championships than we have. So if they're our pets, we're really not very bright petowners, now are we? Besides, with the possible exception of a few stray cheerleaders, I don't think we WANT pets from Oklahoma. It's hard enough keeping those darned Aggies in their place....

[irafreak]

So let's say they get back to 12 teams again....what are the odds of EVER having that situation again? Couldn't they come up with something better? Calculate up the total loss/win point ratio? TT beat UT by 1 point then got blasted by OU so they're out with too many points against. OU lost by what 10? And won by a billion...so that helps. UT won by 10 and lost by 1...OU still wins since they scored a bazillion on TT. THE END