Those are what I'm thinking. All things equal (everyone with one loss) we should be rewarded for our kick azz schedule. I can't understand how anyone can say another team's SOS was higher than ours. How in the heck is Okie lite garnering that? Course we also still played in the SECCG in 2007. The loss was actually our last regular season game.
More than likely, we would still go. Because Arky would be below us in the BCS. Even if Bama were above us, because we would be within 5 of them in the BCS, we would go. I certainly believe that we would get a much better bowl than the cotton if that were to occur. Here are the rules: the event of a tie for the division championship, the following procedures will be used to break all ties to determine the SEC Football Championship Game representative. All Conference versus Conference Games (both division and non-division) will be counted in the Conference Standings. A. TWO-TEAM TIE 1. Head-to-head competition between the two tied teams. 2. Records of the tied teams within the division. 3. Head-to-head competition vs. the team within the division with the best overall record (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last. 4. Overall record vs. all common non-divisional opponents. 5. Combined record vs. all common non-divisional teams. 6. Record vs. common non-divisional team with the best overall Conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division. 7. The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game. B. THREE (OR MORE) TEAM TIE 1. (Once the tie has been reduced to two teams, go to the two-team tie-breaker format.) 2. Combined head-to-head record among the tied teams. 3. Record of the tied teams within the division. 4. Head-to-head competition vs. the team within the division with the best overall (divisional and non-divisional) Conference record and proceeding through the division. Multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last. 5. Overall record vs. non-division teams. 6. Combined record vs. all common non-divisional teams. 7. Record vs. common non-divisional team with the best overall Conference (divisional and non-divisional) record and proceeding through other common non-divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division. 8. The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game, unless the second of the tied teams is ranked within five-or-fewer places of the highest ranked tied team. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the SEC Championship Game.
I didn't understand that the other day when I'd googled it and still don't. How are they reducing the tie to two teams in step?
LSU will not pay in the championship with a loss. All of the media are stating that Bama is better than LSU and that is who they want in. Now they are also saying that Oregon is (now) better than LSU as well.
8. The tied team with the highest ranking in the Bowl Championship Series Standings following the last weekend of regular-season games shall be the divisional representative in the SEC Championship Game, unless the second of the tied teams is ranked within five-or-fewer places of the highest ranked tied team. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the SEC Championship Game. Nobody will be more than 5 spots higher in the BCS than the other two teams involved. Therefore the only two scenarios whereby we don't go to the SEC CG are (based on where they are ranked in the BCS relative to each other): 1. LSU 2. Arkansas 3. Alabama 1. Arkansas 2. LSU 3. Alabama If Arkansas can't pass up Alabama or LSU in the BCS, then LSU goes based on head to head vs Bama. We can be behind Bama in the BCS and would still go.