Auburn is obviously going down to defeat today (30-7 deficit at half to Georgia). So if Arkansas loses to Tennessee tonite, then LSU could conceivably be in the drivers seat for the SEC CG. All 3 teams would have with 1 division loss. That would force the highest BCS ranking tie-breaker. So we need Georgia to keep up the beating of Auburn in the 2nd half, making it as ugly as possible. LSU needs to come out tonite and play like gangbusters. We need all the style points we can get. It will still be close between LSU and Auburn in the BCS standings, even after an Auburn loss. All depends on how far the human polls drop Auburn. Georgia not being ranked is a good thing at this point. We still have a potentially top 15 ranked Arkansas to help us out in both the human/computer polls in the last week of the season. I think we're suddenly in the driver's seat if Tennessee can come thru tonite.
UGA by 40 today would help... Assuming UGA wins today and the barn falls to bama next week we'd go to Atlanta if we win out and either Moo U. or Tenn beats Arky...
why do we have finish 6 spots ahead of Auburn? that's not making any sense to me. So anybody know who goes if there is a 3 way tie and all 3 teams have 1 division loss?
SEC Website. SEC Divisional Tie-Breaker In 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.
If it goes to the BCS tiebreaker, and it probably will, then we would have to be more than 5 spots ahead of Auburn--only if Auburn is ahead of Ark. If ark is ahead of Auburn, then we would only need to be higher than Ark. However, Ark being ahead of Au is very unlikely.
Here is rule 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. So basically Arkansas would have to finish ahead of Auburn in the BCS for us to go in a 3 way tie. That ain't happening.
