The conference is hard at work formulating a tiebreaker process that accounts for multiple-team deadlocks where head-to-head results don’t apply.
SCOTTSDALE — Big Ten football has a math problem to resolve before it becomes a math calamity: How do you break ties in a league with 18 teams, no divisions and eight conference misses?
If the issue isn’t at the top of Kenny’s priority list, it’s close. And because the 12-team College Football Playoff begins this year, there’s more to the Big Ten tiebreaker than simply identifying two teams for the title matchup in Indianapolis. After assessing 262 different versions, the conference settled on the so-called “Flex Protect XVIII” model. It took into account travel by distance, regions of the conference and time zones. The model also considered what the Big Ten described as “historic competitiveness and recent competitive trends, including home/away balance of traditionally competitive schools.”
“The misses are the biggest issue with football,” Kenny said. “In divisions, you generally don’t have large clusters of teams that look the same.”
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