C-USA Tiebreaker Gets Change for 2014

[Harry]

The BCS is history, and at its June meeting, C-USA university presidents gave the OK to a tweaked tiebreaker formula for the football championship site selection. Its similar to what another Group of Five conference the Mountain West will utilize for the same purposes:

1. Highest regular-season winning percentage based on overall C-USA play.

2. If tied, head-to-head between tied teams.

3. If still tied, the most recent College Football Playoff Selection Committee poll will be used if one team or both teams are ranked.

4. If still tied, highest average computer ranking (computed after eliminating the highest and lowest rankings; then averaging the four remaining rankings).

Those six computer rankings are the same ones the former BCS utilized Sagarin, Massey, Billingsley, Colley, Wolfe and Anderson/Hester.

Point No. 3 could be crucial if Marshall plays up to preseason expectations, because the Herd could find itself in those CFP top 25 polls that make their debut Oct. 28 for the first of seven weeks.

Read more: http://www.herdzone.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/072214aaa.html

[outoftown]

Well that is a logical update. I am not totally sure though, that it completely eliminates the possibility for a fiasco such as last seasons.

[Jason Howeth]

As long as our Tiebreaker system looks NOTHING like what the Big XII had a couple years ago, we'll be just fine.