WHY'D IT HAVE TO BE MATH?
While I was down in San Antonio yesterday, in the chatroom Kris from Austin graciously expounded upon the Big 12 tie-breaker situation.
Since I'm way behind on stats and slideshows, I'll just use his post word-for-word. Thanks, Kris.
You need math... you have a geek right here... OK, Danny is right, you do not need for Tech to lose twice for Texas to go to the Conference Title. The tie breaker rules are as follows: 1) Number of conference wins 2) if tied for # 1 then head to head wins 3) if tied for #2 as well then BCS ranking.......
OK, so based on this, if OSU defeats Tech next week at Lubbock, this will most likely mean that we go to the Conference Title. Why? Because, then Tech plays Oklahoma at Norman, and they have to beat Oklahoma, and if OSU defeats Oklahoma in Stillwater, we should hold on to our highest BCS rank and go to play for Conference Title.
The path of least resistance is that OSU defeats Tech, and Oklahoma Defeats Tech, and we have head-to-head since all teams are one loss and Texas still goes to the Conference Title.
Here are the circumstances where Texas does not go to the Conference Title: 1) If Tech Wins out; 2) If Tech loses to OSU, But somehow beats OU and then OSU loses to OU. Here we get head-to-head with Tech ... Tech since both OSU and OU are now two losses and are out of Conference Title Contention. Tech goes to the conference title.
Suffice it to say that Tech holds its destiny in its own hands and how they play Oklahoma and OSU will determine if they have a chance to go to the conference title.